A group of counselors from International Last Wednesday (10) sent an application to the board to call the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) and the STJD (Superior Court of Sports Justice) demanding the recognition of Colorado as champion of Brazilian Championship 2005.
The craft (Full Read below) obtained by ESPN is signed by Leonardo Aquinocoordinator of “Colorado Blood Movement“, and asks” the management of the International incessantly seek the preservation of sports truth and the historical reparation of this competition “.
The document is based on recent statements from the former referee EDÍLSON PEREIRA DE CARVALHOdisplayed in the documentary “Whistle mafia“, from the channel SporTV.
In the interview, the protagonist of the results handling scheme that resulted in the annulment of 11 Brasileirão-2005 games says Inter “would be the champion” of that year without his actions.
“I changed the Brazilian champion. Without the ‘whistle mafia’, the champion team would be international, the champion would be the international,” says Edilson, in excerpt from the production.
Precisely for this reason, the “Colorado Blood Movement“It stresses that the” principle of sports truth, provided for in FIFA rules and CBJD (Brazilian Code of Sports Justice), ensures that the results of competitions should reflect what was obtained in the field, loyal and isonomic. “
The letter cites even cases of international football, such as the punishments applied by UEFA to Olympic of Marseillein 1993, the Italian League to Juventusin 2006, for results manipulations.
“In the international level, there are emblematic precedents of title rectification in the face of manipulations and fraud, […]in which achievements were revoked and sanctions applied to restore the smoothness of competitions, “he said.
Based on this, the group asks the Colorada Board that:
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Formal recommendation is issued to the Management Council to urgently adopt all appropriate legal and institutional measures with the CBF and STJD, aiming at the official recognition of Sport Club International as Brazilian champion of 2005;
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That the management of the International incessantly seeks the preservation of sports truth and the historical reparation of this competition;
“This is not mere revisionism, but a historical justice action. It is popular consensus that Sport Club International was severely and unfairly harmed in that edition of the Brazilian Championship. All fans of all clubs recognize that the international was the legitimate champion of that year,” says the document.
“The omission facing this episode perpetuates a distortion that touches the integrity of Brazilian football. It is the institutional and moral duty of Sport Club International to fight for the historical consecration of 2005, which in the field belonged to it,” he concludes.
Officially, the Brazilian champion of 2005 is the Corinthianswhich added 81 points in the tournament, against 78 do Inter.
Timon, however, was indirectly benefited from the annulment of the 11 games whistled by EDÍLSON PEREIRA DE CARVALHO That year, as he managed to “recover” four of six points lost in the matches that were played again after STJD decision.
With the new score, the alvinegra team passed Colorado in the table and took the lead. Subsequently, he did his part on the field and ended up crowned as champion at the end of the tournament.
Read the craft of the International Counselors
To the chairman of the Sport Club International Deliberative Council
Subject: Proposition of legal and institutional measures in defense of recognition of the 2005 Brazilian Championship title in favor of Sport Club International.
I – the factual foundation
In recent public statements, former referee Edílson Pereira de Carvalho, pivot of the scandal known as the whistle mafia, admitted that, were it not for the manipulation of results in 2005 and its developments, the International would have been the legitimate Brazilian champion.
“I changed the Brazilian champion. Without the ‘whistle mafia’, the champion team would be international, the champion would be the international.”
The competition was touched by betting and departure handling frauds, leading the STJD to the cancellation of 11 confrontations whistled by Edílson Pereira de Carvalho and the reprogramming of results, in unequivocal technical damage to the International.
It is a decision of a legal point of view, applied generally and without the proper individual analysis of each case. Some matches were not even on bookmakers, others did not have recordings, listening or any evidence of fraud, and the referee himself stated that not all matches were manipulated.
There were even situations where the team intended to benefit from the fraud was defeated in the field, as occurred in Santos 4 x 2 Corinthians, on July 31, 2005.
Under such circumstances, annulment configured true legal aberration. Add to this the episode in Pacaembu, in which referee Márcio Rezende de Freitas failed to signal clear penalty in Paulo César Tinga, unfairly casting him out-a fact that the referee himself has publicly admitted that it was a serious and determining mistake.
II – legal basis
The principle of sports truth, provided for in FIFA’s rules and the CBJD (Brazilian Code of Sports Justice), ensures that the results of competitions should reflect what was obtained in the field, in a loyal and isonomic way.
Art. 275 of the CBJD authorizes the annulment of matches only when proven specific manipulation in each case – which did not occur in the judgment of the 11 games, all canceled indistinctly.
In the international level, there are emblematic precedents of title rectification in the face of manipulation and fraud, as in the case of Olympique de Marseille (France, 1993) and Juventus (Italy, 2006), in which achievements were revoked and sanctions applied to restore the smoothness of competitions.
FIFA itself, in its statutes (art. 2, item G), establishes as an early purpose the preservation of integrity, ethics and FAIR PLAY, preventing and correcting manipulations that violate sports truth.
III – of the request
Given the above, it is required at the table of the Deliberative Council:
a) Formal recommendation is issued to the Management Council to urgently adopt all appropriate legal and institutional measures with the CBF and STJD, aiming at the official recognition of Sport Club International as Brazilian champion of 2005;
b) that the management of the International incessantly seeks the preservation of sports truth and the historical reparation of this competition.
IV – FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
This is not mere revisionism, but a historical justice action. It is popular consensus that the international Sport Club was severely and unfairly impaired in that edition of the Brazilian Championship. All fans of all clubs recognize that the International was the legitimate champion of that year.
The omission of this episode perpetuates a distortion that tarnals the integrity of Brazilian football. It is the institutional and moral duty of Sport Club Internacional to fight for the historical consecration of 2005, which in the field belonged to it.
In these terms,
Ask and wait for granting.
Leonardo Aquino
Colorado Blood Movement Coordinator
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