By Gabriel Cochetron
Athletes need representation. Regarding the return of football, about the Bills, which affect rights, or championship formulas, it is necessary to hear the opinions of those who play. And this can happen through unions. The problem is that they are not representative yet. Without the participation of athletes with little supervision and guaranteed revenue, they suffer from a serious credibility crisis.
Sao Paolo (SPACE) became the subject of controversy after a report by the state’s professional athletes’ union ‘Globo Esporte’ revealed that the union’s president for 28 years, former goalkeeper Rinaldo Martorelli, during a series of irregularities during his Of. Six terms. According to the complaint, he may have transformed the situation into a profitable business by building compensation for his role, systematically increasing it, creating millionaire bonuses, and maintaining the amounts that could be distributed to athletes.
Knowing the lack of unions among athletes themselves, the National Federation of Professional Football Athletes (FENAPAF) wants to restructure and work with new management policies.
In February, the Field law Showed that FENAPAF signed an agreement with Grant Thornton, the sixth largest accounting and consulting organization in the United States, to conduct a full audit of all entity data over the past five years. (Hyperlink: https://leiemcampo.com.br/por-transparência-federação-nacional-de-atletas-ira-fazer-auditoria/)
One of the problems described was the remuneration of fine managers.
Former player and currently financial director of FENAPAF, Washington Mascarenhas explained Field law The current status of the unit and the main measures being taken and how the funds are paid to the state unions.
“Between the years 2015 and 2020, the federation had a council made up of ex-presidents – Reynaldo Martorelli, Alfredo Sampao and Ivo Amaral – that brought high values to the unit’s coffers. We reached an absurd R $ 400 thousand payroll. In a federation where the athlete received no FIFRO value for doing no refunds. Finally, we entered December 2020 and we had a proposal to bring transparency, compliance, attitude, better communication work for athletes. We could reach. Goals. Promise to include players and expenses “, the director said.
To make management more transparent, Washington explained how the funds were disbursed within the FENAPAF at the time:
-> Salary for each director: VGBL of R $ 50 thousand (total R $ 150 thousand) + R $ 20 thousand – Monthly Private Pension Fund – (Total R $ 60 thousand);
-> Executive salary: R $ 30 thousand;
-> Administrative salary: R $ 80 thousand;
-> Cost of moving (hotel, apartment rental for directors, tickets and reimbursement): R $ 80 thousand.
According to the director, the new management achieved a satisfactory result in just four months of work, reducing the payroll to R $ 130 thousand. To achieve the goal, Washington describes what the organization did:
“We reduced the board’s payroll (R $ 54 thousand), which previously did not match the reality, we abolished the councils and cut old contracts existing within the unit of the two apartments that were used by the board Were, despite being related to the qualities FENAPAF’s director. There was a huge conflict in all of this, but very few are keeping the house in order and fixing things “, concludes Washington.
Unions are guaranteed revenue under the law. FENAPAF receives the money that comes from the arena, and is credited to unions that pay players, or pay directly to athletes from states where it does not have unions.
“This is a very complex issue. This oversight of transfers will depend a lot on members through the Fiscal Council and other internal oversight bodies. It should be done well and be completely transparent”, Martino Miranda, Sports Says a lawyer specializing in. For law and columnist Field law.
Martino also highlighted the importance of athletes ‘participation within the unions: “Players’ participation is fundamental, what is at stake and protecting money and their interests. The greater the association, the better it is for them. Will happen. “
According to FENAPAF, there have been problems with many states in these transfers.
“Today I am the financial director and I oversee this. Currently, we demand accountability from these unions, so much so that RS, SE, MG, SC, BA, GO, are not able to do with the unit because they have submitted their renders Not done. Accounts. In the past, it did not exist and that is why today we are having a political battle because of this major change that we are proposing, “Washington said.
In many countries, athletes have effectively participated in important sports discussions.
In Argentina, they had already gone on strike to protest the backwardness of pay for athletes from smaller clubs who were late. In the United States, any major NBA decision, for example, needs to be discussed with a representative of athletes. In Brazil, class still does not have the relevant political weight in the operation of sports.
Andrei Kampf, an expert in sports law and a journalist who wrote this blog, says that “the way to transparency and responsible management is fundamental in the management of resources. And, from there, it is necessary to see something unavoidably – representation. Athletes. With the participation and oversight of the UN unions, it has everything to do with strength and participation in relevant discussions of sports in the classroom. “
Wanted by Field law On the points raised by the article ‘GE’, Rinaldo Matorelli stated that “there is nothing to reveal”.
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