Soccer is one of the most popular and passionate sports in the world, and in Brazil it's no different. Soccer clubs are true national passions, mobilizing crowds of fans who follow and support their teams unconditionally. However, in recent years, with the advance of digital technologies, the relationship between clubs and fans has undergone profound transformations, and the possibilities for interaction between both parties have expanded considerably. In this context, Web3 technologies have gained increasing prominence and promise to revolutionize the way Brazilian soccer clubs relate to their fans. Web3 technologies are an evolution of previous web technologies (Web1 and Web2), and are characterized by allowing the creation of decentralized applications and platforms, based on blockchain, which can be used for a variety of purposes, from developing new forms of payment to creating voting systems and collaborative governance. In the context of sport, especially soccer, the possibilities are vast, and an elite Brazilian soccer club can benefit enormously from using these technologies to bring its fans closer together and generate new revenue.
Alan de Carvalho Dias Ferreira, Kassandra Pereria Vitor, Marcelo de Castro Haiachi, Alberto Reinaldo Reppold Filho
The financial support to the Elite Sports carried out historically through tax exemptions to the sports entities, in recent years has been added to a series of governmental actions, with emphasis on the agreements, the granting of scholarships to athletes and the Sports Incentive Law. This paper aims to describe the investment of federal public resources from agreements in paralympic sports, in addition to identifying their main beneficiaries and the types of expenses incurred. In order to do so, a descriptive research was carried out, using documentary research, in the National High-Performance Sport Secretariat of the Ministry of Sports (SNEAR), for the cataloging of agreements, onlending and decentralization agreements entered into by the federal public administration via SNEAR, to finance Paralympic sports from 2008 to 2016. It has been verified that Brazil has invested resources in the Paralympic sport with greater intensity between 2008 and 2014. However, it was evidenced that the Federal Government does not have systematized information or method to systematize the information on the transfer of financial resources through agreements, which was developed in this study. Other public entities, committees, confederations, leagues, federations, clubs and educational institutions are the destinations of the financial resources of the agreements, which can be applied in 12 different ways. Between 2008 and 2016 there was an increase in the amount of funds invested in Paralympic sports, mainly for the preparation of the Rio 2016 Games. The investments made through agreements are mainly in facilities and sports materials. It is concluded that financial resources of the Federal Government are spent without classification of the actions, entities or public to which such resources are destined. Thus, the systematization of this information, presented in this work, can substantially collaborate with the evaluation and formulation of government policies and actions.
Public policy maybe understood as a question of the State, or as a matter of State action. It is in the middle of the process of application of public services and is deliberated in the condition of social activity, it is also understood as an action of the governmentt to fulfil the demands of the population. Since the 1988 Federal Constitution, sport has secured financing for the development of its actions at various levels of government (BRAZIL, 1988). The Brazilian State is structured in federated entities, they are: the Union, the states (and the Federal District) and counties. The administration of each of these entities is autonomous, presenting an organizational structure of its own. The agencies responsible for developing public sports policies in the public sector generally belong to the model of direct execution through Secretariats and Departments or, in some cases, in the indirect model with Autarchies and Foundations (SANTOS, 2014). The first model presents more centralized characteristics, in which the link is total to the public administration. In the second one, the execution of the services occurs in a more decentralized way, performed by out sourced labor force and not being totally linked to the public power. The main point here is to analyze the relationship of the administrative structure of municipal sports agencies on the financing of sports public policies in counties of the state of Parana. In order to this happen, we identified the administrative structure of the municipal sports agencies, verified the financial resources allocated to thes estructures and finally analyzed whether there is a correlation betweem the two variables. Our sample was composed of 80 counties in the state of Paraná. The information used for the analysis was taken from the data base of the research "Analysis of the public agents of the national sports system" and from the Counties Transparency Portal. The data analysis was performed used the statistical software SPSS®. It was observed the predominance of structures that set the direct administration, specially, Sports Departments that are mostly inserted in counties with up to 20 thousand in habitants. The average value for the development of sports public policies in counties is 1.1%. The Sports Foundations presented the high est average percent ageamong administrative structures, 1.96%, followed by Secretariats (1.58%) and Departments (1.23%). The data indicat et hat there is no direct relation ship bet weenthe management structure, in relation to the amount of financial resource that eachtype of structure presents. The budget appears as a fundamental element, however, the management model seems to be more significant than the financing of the actions itself, identifying the sports manager as a central figure in the midst of conducting the two variables.