The Ministries of Sports (MEsp) and Treasury held training for their technical teams this Thursday (15) in Brasília. The training, promoted by Sportradar, on manipulation and monitoring of sports betting aims to train employees.
The training is part of the cooperation agreement signed between MEsp and Sportradar. The partnership aims to assist the government in combating fraud in sports results in Brazil.
According to the National Secretary of Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sports, Giovanni Rocco Neto, the goal is to make training continuous. “The constant 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.
“Today we are addressing manipulation in football, which is the great passion of Brazilians, but our concern is with the integrity of the entire national sport. Training will be ongoing, not only for the staff, but soon for the athletes as well,” he said.
Officials from the Ministry of Sports and the Sub-Secretariat of Inspection of the Prizes and Betting Secretariat (SPA) of the Ministry of Treasury participated in the activity.
Sportradar and its role in promoting industry integrity
Sportradar is a leading Swiss sports data technology company with a strong focus on sports integrity. Through a monitoring system, the company analyzes thousands of sporting events each year to detect anomalous behavior that could indicate match-fixing.
“We are building ideas and policies together to combat this phenomenon, which is so complex not only in our country, but throughout Latin America and the entire world,” explained Sportradar’s Director of Integrity for Latin America, Felippe Marchetti.
“We did a general overview of the market in Brazil and around the world, a conceptualization of manipulation, and we addressed the technical part of how game monitoring and sports betting work,” he added.
Cooperation
The Ministry of Sports is now part of the Cooperation Agreements (CAs) with five entities specialized in monitoring and integrity in the sector. They are: Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA), International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA), Sportradar, Associação de Bets e Fantasy Sport (ABFS) and Genius Sports.
