Marin invites Lula to the Confederations Cup.
Along with Vice President Marco Polo del Nero, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) visited the Lula Institute on Wednesday afternoon to invite former President Lula to attend the opening ceremony and matches of the Confederations Cup, which begins next Saturday; José Maria Marin took the opportunity to present the Workers' Party leader with a replica of the 1958 Brazilian national team jersey.
247 - Accompanied by Vice President Marco Polo del Nero, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), José Maria Marin, visited the Lula Institute on Wednesday afternoon to invite former President Lula to attend the opening ceremony and matches of the Confederations Cup, which begins next Saturday in Brasília. The two took the opportunity to present Lula with a replica of the 1958 Brazilian national team jersey.
According to Lula's press office, the meeting had been scheduled in advance, and the former president has not yet confirmed his presence at the Confederations Cup games. However, the Workers' Party member reportedly agreed to go to the Maracanã stadium to watch the final. Considered a key supporter of Andrés Sanchez's campaign for the presidency of the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation), Lula demonstrated with this Wednesday's meeting an openness that, until then, was not expected with Marin.
The president of the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) is seeking ways to get closer to President Dilma Rousseff. Before Brazil's match against France, played at the Arena Grêmio, Marin had already been received by the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Tarso Genro, a member of the Workers' Party, at the Palácio Piratini, along with 13 presidents of federations.