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The Sport & Rights Alliance on Monday called for a comprehensive investigation into the recently uncovered allegations of systemic failures in Brazil’s premier football club that culminated in the deaths of 10 child athletes in a fire in 2019.
Executive director of the Sport & Rights Alliance, Andrea Florence, criticized this new development, stating;
However, the civil case was closed almost four months later after a thorough investigation concluded that the football club complied with local regulations, resulting in the club resuming its day-to-day operations. In the next five years, the deplorable living conditions that young football players were forced to live through garnered attention globally, with the New York Times and included in a 2024 Netflix documentary where they were alleged to have been housed in combustible containers, with barred windows.
In justifying the release of senior officials of the football club, the court stated that criminal liability should not be haphazardly afforded to individuals just because they had occupied a higher position in the club, citing insufficient evidence implicating them in the boys’ deaths. The football club’s president was acquitted at the time due to the lapse of the statute of limitations.
In addition to the negligence and subpar living standards among youth, footage from journalist Renata Mendonça corroborated this concerning pattern of torture, exposing the conditions in which women at the football club’s professional training center had to undergo training with broken floors, lack of good quality running water and minimal access to physiotherapy.
Although the Brazilian government had passed a bill in November 2024 which mandated publicly funded sports entities to ensure that their operations satisfied proper safeguards and emphasized the importance of protecting children and women athletes, its long-term impact remains to be seen.
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Executive director of the Sport & Rights Alliance, Andrea Florence, criticized this new development, stating;
Rights groups condemned the latest October 21 release of senior officials of the Brazilian club ‘Flamengo’ as a blow to the rights of the victims’ families and a significant shortcoming of the justice system. In the years preceding the tragic events of the fire on Flamengo’s training grounds in early February 2019, the football club was alleged to have conducted unregulated operations, been fined countless times and was sued by state prosecutors for their ill-treatment of young players, often subjecting them to poor quality living quarters. Following the fire, a judge had ruled the training grounds to be unfit to house youth players and issued an injunction banning youth from entering it.
However, the civil case was closed almost four months later after a thorough investigation concluded that the football club complied with local regulations, resulting in the club resuming its day-to-day operations. In the next five years, the deplorable living conditions that young football players were forced to live through garnered attention globally, with the New York Times and included in a 2024 Netflix documentary where they were alleged to have been housed in combustible containers, with barred windows.
In justifying the release of senior officials of the football club, the court stated that criminal liability should not be haphazardly afforded to individuals just because they had occupied a higher position in the club, citing insufficient evidence implicating them in the boys’ deaths. The football club’s president was acquitted at the time due to the lapse of the statute of limitations.
In addition to the negligence and subpar living standards among youth, footage from journalist Renata Mendonça corroborated this concerning pattern of torture, exposing the conditions in which women at the football club’s professional training center had to undergo training with broken floors, lack of good quality running water and minimal access to physiotherapy.
Although the Brazilian government had passed a bill in November 2024 which mandated publicly funded sports entities to ensure that their operations satisfied proper safeguards and emphasized the importance of protecting children and women athletes, its long-term impact remains to be seen.
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