Future Minister of Sports, former volleyball player Ana Moser said this Thursday (29) that president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) asked that the portfolio give priority to amateur sports in the future government and said he wants to see “children, young people and adults doing sport”.
“Him [Lula] He has a lot of knowledge about the sport. He played football, non-professional football, not Neymar’s football, the varzea football. This sport is present in people’s lives, the sport of each one in different stages of life. It is this sport that he wants,” said the future minister to Sheet.
In the composition of her team, the former athlete intends to take her “group”, including sports institutes, athletes and managers. “Many people who have been with me over the last two decades and who I will count on in management to make more and more scale,” she said.
“Need technical profile, server [público], legal support, articulation in Congress. The idea is to bring my group here, bring specialized people to do what needs to be done, and what needs to be done is to prioritize sports for everyone”, he added.
One of the main challenges for the future minister will be to restore the portfolio to the status of a ministry – Sport was demoted to a special secretariat by Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
As for the wasted Olympic legacy six years after the Rio Games, in 2016, Moser says that the federal government will work together with the City of Rio de Janeiro to take better advantage of the sports facilities in Barra and Deodoro.
Some promises, such as the creation of a training center capable of making Brazil a world sports power, were never fulfilled. According to the federal government, the construction of the Barra and Deodoro Olympic Parks cost more than R$ 2 billion.
“It’s a structure that has potential, it’s not going to do a large-scale social project, because that’s not what it’s for, it’s going to work in a place that has conditions to help high-performance sports to develop even more”, he said.
On the courts, Moser won bronze at the Atlanta Olympics (1996) — the first Olympic medal for Brazilian women’s volleyball. She retired three years later and started to dedicate herself to social projects.
He founded the Instituto Esporte e Educação and more recently directed the organization Atletas Pelo Brasil. At the head of the entity, the former volleyball player was one of the articulators of civil society in favor of the General Sports Law and the National Sports Plan. In the Lula government’s transition team, Moser was part of the sports working group.
Moser will be the first Minister of Sports in a PT government that is not linked to a political party. Since the first Lula government, the portfolio has been occupied by members of the PT itself, the PC do B and has also been in the hands of the PRB (today, Republicans).
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