Brazil: Federation moves into its new headquarters in Rio de Janeiro

The CBF (Brazilian Football Federation) has moved into its new offices in Rio de Janeiro, the federation announced on 19/05/2014. Since 2002 it had been in a rented building.

Aside from the administrative offices of the CBF, the new 9,000m² headquarters has a museum devoted to the national team, a restaurant, an auditorium and television studios for CBF TV, the official internet TV of the federation.

The construction of this new facility cost the Brazilian federation €33m. An official opening will be attended by representatives of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) on 04/06/2014, the federation said.

• Jose Maria Marin, president of the CBF, over-paid for the construction by €10.2m, according to a report published by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo on 16/04/2014.
• His term ends in April 2015.
• Marco Polo Del Nero was elected president of the CBF on 16/04/2014 to serve a term from 2015 to 2019.

• The new headquarters of the CBF