October 20 – Marco Polo del Nero, the Brazilian FA president who famously made a quick getaway just as seven other football officials, including his predecessor, were detained as part of the US corruption probe on that dramatic May morning in Zurich, has denied he has been forced out of the FIFA executive committee.
Del Nero has not attended the last three FIFA exco meetings and reports suggest agreement has been reached with CONMEBOL and FIFA for him to quit at the end of this month.
Although he has not been named in the US indictment, he fled Zurich after his predecessor as CBF president, Jose Maria Marin, was one of those arrested.
A statement posted on the CBF website said: “Contrary to newspaper reports today, there have been no dealings on the removal of the president Marco Polo Del Nero from the FIFA Executive Committee.”
The news was first broken by the Estado de Sao Paulo publication which claimed Del Nero, who has not left Brazil since fleeing Switzerland, will keep his post at the CBF but would be replaced at FIFA, possibly by another Brazilian, in time for the last exco meeting of the year in December. CONMEBOL will apparently choose his replacement at its next meeting on Monday in Rio de Janeiro.
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