Marco Polo Del Nero

Marco Polo Del Nero (2008)

Marco Polo Del Nero (born February 22, 1941 in São Paulo , Brazil ) is a Brazilian lawyer and was a member of the FIFA Executive Committee .

Del Nero has been President of the Federação Paulista de Futebol (FPF) since 2003 . In 2007 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the continental association CONMEBOL . On March 23, 2012, CONMEBOL elected him to succeed the resigned Ricardo Teixeira on the FIFA Executive Committee and in April 2014 he was elected to succeed José Maria Marin as President of the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF) from April 1, 2015.

After he was accused of corruption investigations against FIFA officials , he resigned from his post as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee on November 26, 2015 and resigned as CBF President for 180 days on December 3, 2015 after the FIFA Ethics Committee had initiated proceedings against him. Shortly thereafter, a number of former top Brazilian players, including Pele, Rai and Zico, wrote an open letter calling for Del Nero to resign.

Web links

Commons : Marco Polo Del Nero  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Portrait of Del Nero on fifa.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Del Nero becomes a member of the FIFA Executive Committee. In: de.fifa.com. FIFA, March 27, 2012, accessed October 16, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Brazil: Del Nero new CBF President from 2015. Retrieved July 16, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Brazil's "Exko-Geist" Del Nero resigns. Retrieved December 3, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Brazil's head of the association is taking a leave of absence. Archived from the original on December 20, 2015 ; Retrieved December 5, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Pele and Co. attack association boss sport1.de December 17, 2015
6. ↑ Pele and Co. attack association boss sport1.de December 17, 2015