Willing to protect fair play in football, strengthening integrity, the Football Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro announced a partnership with Sportradar Integrity Services, a unit of Sportradar, a global provider of sports integrity solutions and a partner of more than 180 federations and sports leagues. In February, the Paraense Federation also closed with the company to combat match-fixing.
“It's another step by Ferj in the crusade for fair play, for results on the field, without outside interference. Sportradar is a reference in the fight, with intelligence, the manipulation of results. Fans can know that we are going to protect football in Rio de Janeiro with all our efforts. Football is decided on the pitch,” adds Rubens Lopes, president of the Ferj.
The agreement, just signed, consists of the implementation of the Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) and covers the matches of the Professional Championships of Series A2, B1, B2 and C, Copa Rio, in addition to the Under-20 competitions of the respective competitions, adding that of the Série A, and the Carioca Female Adult (a total of approximately 650 games).
The Series A of the Carioca Championship of Professionals, it is worth mentioning, was already covered previously.
“We witness growing threats to the integrity of sport. We are therefore delighted to have signed this partnership with Ferj, one of the leading state football organizations in Brazil,” commented Andreas Krannich, Global Director of Sportradar Integrity Services.
"At Sportradar, we are fully committed to assisting our sporting partners' efforts to detect and prevent such threats and look forward to supporting Ferj's commitment to maintaining the integrity of its competitions in the future."
Source: GMB
