FILE - President of the Football Associated of Brazil, Ednaldo Rodrigues, addresses the FIFA Congress after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup soccer, in Bangkok, Thailand, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
Brazil soccer to pick new president shortly before introducing Ancelotti
SAO PAULO (AP) 鈥 The Brazilian Football Confederation will pick a new president shortly before it introduces Real Madrid’s Carlo Ancelotti as the new national coach.
FILE - President of the Football Associated of Brazil, Ednaldo Rodrigues, addresses the FIFA Congress after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup soccer, in Bangkok, Thailand, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
SAO PAULO (AP) 鈥 The Brazilian Football Confederation will pick a new president shortly before it introduces Real Madrid’s Carlo Ancelotti as the new national coach.
CBF vice president Fernando Sarney, who was named by a judge as the caretaker president after Ednaldo Rodrigues was removed from office, announced on Friday that the vote will take place on May 25, the same day as the last round of the Spanish league.
When Rodrigues was in charge, Ancelotti was expected to arrive the next day at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro to announce his squad for two World Cup qualifiers against Ecuador and Paraguay in June. The coach has confirmed his move to Brazil at the end of La Liga but has not mentioned when he arrives.
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The CBF election will also include eight vice president positions.
鈥淭he management of the electoral process will be under the responsibility of an independent electoral commission,鈥 Sarney said in a statement.
Rio-based judge Gabriel de Oliveira Zefiro removed Rodrigues from the presidency on Thursday and ordered new elections 鈥渁s soon as possible.鈥 The embattled soccer executive is appealing to the country鈥檚 Supreme Court to keep his position.
Rodrigues announced the as Brazil coach on Monday. He to remain on the job until March 2030.
Zefiro put Sarney, who asked the court to unseat Rodrigues, in charge of organizing new elections. The judge ruled the agreement that validated Rodrigues鈥 first term was null and void, and that without it Rodrigues should not have been eligible for his second term.
Sarney told TV Globo on Thursday he will not touch Brazil鈥檚 deal with Ancelotti.
It is the second time Rodrigues has been removed from office by a court decision. A similar move took place in December 2023 but the removal was reversed by Brazil鈥檚 Supreme Court.
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Because of that earlier legal dispute, the confederation vice presidents reached an agreement in January to validate Rodrigues鈥 first term and clear the way for him to run again.
But Zefiro sided with Sarney, who claimed one of the signatories of the deal, the 86-year-old Antonio Carlos Nunes, was not mentally fit to sign the agreement. The court scheduled to hear Nunes on Monday to evaluate his mental state, but the hearing was suspended only hours after Ancelotti was signed.
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