JUE 19 DE JUNIO DE 2025 - 00:09hs.
Brasilia

Brazilian government promotes training offered by Sportradar to curb fraud in sports results

Technical teams from the Ministries of Sports and Finance participated in a training promoted by Sportradar in Brasilia on manipulation and monitoring of sports betting. The training is part of the Cooperation Agreement signed between the MEsp and the Swiss entity, with the objective of helping to combat fraud in sports results in Brazil.

The ongoing training of employees is essential. Today's action is just one of the initiatives in this regard. Sportradar is one of the entities with which we signed cooperation agreements; it and the other four companies are among the main organizations operating in Brazil and worldwide,” said the National Secretary of Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sports, Giovanni Rocco Neto.

Today we are addressing manipulation in football, which is the great passion of Brazilians, but our concern is with the integrity of all national sports. The training will be ongoing, not only for employees, but soon for athletes as well,” he added.
 


The event was attended by officials from the Ministry of Sports and the Undersecretariat of Inspection of the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) of the Ministry of Finance.

Sportradar is a Swiss company that is a leader in sports data technology, with a strong presence in the area of sports integrity.

Using a monitoring system, the company analyzes thousands of sporting events per year to detect anomalous behavior that may indicate match-fixing.
 


We are developing ideas and policies together to combat this phenomenon, which is so complex not only in our country, but throughout Latin America and the world,” explained Sportradar’s Integrity Director for Latin America, Felippe Marchetti.

We did a general overview of the market in Brazil and worldwide, a conceptualization of match-fixing, and addressed the technical aspects of how match monitoring and sports betting work,” added the executive.

The Ministry of Sports has signed Cooperation Agreements (CAs) with five entities specializing in monitoring and integrity in the sector: Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA), International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA), Sportradar, Associação de Bets e Fantasy Sport (ABFS) and Genius Sports.

The partnerships aim to prevent and combat match-fixing, fraud and other practices that are detrimental to sports integrity.

Source: GMB