Olympic medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Games, Ana Moser took office this Wednesday (4) as Minister of Sports and promised to implement a sports policy for all.
“[Vamos] make a revolution and invert the logic that has always placed high performance as a priority, the top of the pyramid of a structure that should guarantee sport for all, as provided for in the Constitution”, he said.
“We have already heard this speech thousands of times, but this time the window of opportunity is unique, because there is an understanding with President Lula. I would even say that it is a miracle that happened in this area, for those who defend sport as a right for all. me in that chair if that wasn’t the intention,” he said.
She also announced the names that will occupy positions in the portfolio: Marta Sobra, a former basketball player, for the high-performance secretary; Jorge Luis Ferrarezi, former councilor, for football and support department; and Diogo Silva, a former taekwondo fighter, whose role has not yet been detailed by the minister.
Moser is the first female sports minister in Brazil and the first person to head the portfolio in a PT government that is not directly 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).
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.
Action focused on the educational, health and social aspect of sports contrasts with the hallmark of the first PT governments, the mega-hundreds, such as the World Cup and the Rio Olympics, which were later criticized for their innocuous legacy.
According to her, it was Lula’s request that his administration focus on sports for everyone. “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”, she said to Sheet on the day of its official announcement to the folder.
It was this profile —which mixes her experience as a high-performance athlete with social management—, say people in the sector, that bought her the job. She is seen with good eyes by NGOs, athletes and also by confederations, and the announcement should take place this week, along with the rest of the ministers of the future government.
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 former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
Despite years of work in sports management and in the debate on public policies, Moser did little work within the State.
She was appointed director of the Olympic Center at Ibirapuera Park, within the structure of the Sports Secretariat of São Paulo, and was a member of the National Sports Council, of the Ministry of Sports, both positions not so central within the respective folders.
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