The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has announced the dismissal of Wilson Seneme, who faced challenges in his mission to make the game more dynamic as he had aimed. Under his leadership, matches continued to experience interference from referees and VAR. From now on, an International Expert Advisory Committee will evaluate the decisions made by referees in the Brazilian Championship and the Brazilian Cup.
The CBF Referees Committee will be managed by a multidisciplinary technical team, coordinated by manager Rodrigo Cintra and will have other names, such as Luiz Flávio de Oliveira, Marcelo Van Gasse, Fabrício Vilarinho, Luiz Carlos Bezerra, Eveliny Almeida and Emerson Filipino Coelho.
The International Expert Advisory Committee is formed by Italian Nicola Rizzoli, who refereed the final of the 2014 World Cup, Argentina’s Nestor Pitana, referee of the 2018 World Cup final, and Brazilian Sandro Ricci, who worked at the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, also with a long experience worldwide. The International Expert Advisory Committee will be in contact with the Referees Committee analyzing controversial decisions, those that raise doubts, and, when analyzing them, the three members of the Committee will have voting power in order to direct decisions of the Referees Committee. The aim is to improve national refereeing and reduce the number of misguided decisions in football games. When creating the Advisory Committee of International Experts to interact with the Arbitration Commission, the CBF became the first national association to adopt this methodology in the world. Other news announced by the CBF relate to the creation of the National School of Refereeing and the elaboration of a national ranking of referees, initiatives that will already be in force this semester, with the intention of standardizing the sector.
Source: CBF
