While the football Botafogo wait for the millions John Textor with the new PURE, you olympic sports alvinegros will have to undergo a route readjustment. Disconnected from the model club-company, remo, basketball, by the aquatic, among others, will have to be even more self-sustaining with this change.
If previously the investment in basketball generated internal squabbles for raising funds that could go to football, now each modality will have to seek support. But the SAF can help with this, by paying off the most urgent debts and, thus, obtaining the issuance of CNDs that allow funding to be raised through the incentive law.
— The strategic planning of Olympic sports will be promoted under a new, more responsible context and with the professionalization guidelines that we have adopted. It starts, for example, with the CNDs that we will have, where there may be funding via the Sports Incentive Law. But everything in its own time. The priority at the moment is the conclusion of the SAF deal – said the president of Botafogo, Durcesio Mello, to “O Globo”.
In rowing, Botafogo has the main Brazilian athlete of the modality, Lucas Verthein, 12th at the Tokyo Olympics and medalist at the Junior World Cup. Basketball, South American champion in 2019, will play again this year in the Brazilian Championship – equivalent to the second division.
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