JUE 26 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 - 13:02hs.
Led by Tiago Horta Barbosa, Head of Integrity

In partnership with Genius Sports, Athletico Paranaense promotes football integrity workshops

Athletico Paranaense, in partnership with Genius Sports, promotes integrity workshops for all its athletes. The objective is to educate, raise awareness and prevent the manipulation of results, in addition to helping to protect Brazilian football. The forums developed by Genius Sports and carried out by Tiago Horta Barbosa, the company's Head of Integrity for Latin America.



The contents have a focus on education and protection of players against sports corruption practices. The company provides information acquired from its extensive experience in monitoring, detecting and investigating the manipulation of competitions around the world.

“We regularly offer high-level educational workshops for clubs and league partners around the world,” highlighted Tiago Horta Barbosa.
 


“We are honored that a visionary club like Athletico Paranaense has chosen us for this vital initiative and we are eager to work together in the fight against the manipulation of results and in the protection of Brazilian football against betrayal-related corruption threats,” Tiago added.

“The objective of this workshop is to address the integrity of sport. The player wants to attend the competition and have certainty that what is happening is true, that there is no type of manipulation and fraud. The athletes, from their newest years as professionals, are all very susceptible. We saw examples of athletes who lost their careers, who had their lives ruined, literally, because of vice and manipulation,” said Rodrigo Gama, Legal Director of Club Athletico Paranaense.

“We understand that this forum, in partnership with ABRADIE, to which we are affiliated, is very important. Because we shed light on our athletes about how they should conduct their careers and about our concern in relation to this issue that is very important, that is integrity,” Gama added.

Genius Sports is co-founder of the Brazilian Sports Integrity Defense Association (ABRADIE), a non-profit organization that will address issues that concern the integrity of Brazilian sports.

Also, the company is part of the trustworthy integrity of the English Premier League, the Argentine Football Association (AFA), the Colombian Dimayor, the Liga MX and the National Football League (NFL), and the Brazilian Basketball League (NBB). ), of the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation and of the National Futsal League.

Source: GMB