Ceará Sporting Club
·11 June 2026
At CBF’s invitation, João Paulo Silva to represent Ceará in USA

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Yahoo sportsCeará Sporting Club
·11 June 2026

President João Paulo Silva will represent Ceará SC in an immersive program organized by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in the United States, one of the three host countries of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.The CBF extended a formal invitation to Ceará and the other 39 clubs from Serie A and Serie B of the Brazilian Championship.The trip, originally scheduled for Wednesday as outlined in the CBF’s official agenda, was declined due to the match against Avaí and a scheduling conflict involving the club’s vice presidents, which would have prevented them from representing Ceará on the trip.The schedule includes important meetings; the creation of a unified league for Brazilian football is one of the topics on the agenda. As benchmarks in management processes, Major League Soccer (MLS) and other American leagues will be studied during the stay on U.S. soil.The group of executives will also make a technical visit to MLS headquarters and hold an institutional meeting with representatives of the National Football League (NFL). The delegation will also attend Brazil’s opening match in the World Cup against Morocco in New York. All costs of the trip were fully covered by the CBF.Even with the commitment over the weekend, João Paulo Silva will already be back in Brazil next Sunday, the 14th, and will join the black-and-white delegation as usual for the match against Criciúma, valid for the 13th round of the Brazilian Championship.International experienceThis will be the second institutional immersion organized by the CBF in which President João Paulo Silva will represent Ceará in 2026. At the beginning of the year, the black-and-white executive carried out a technical agenda in Europe, visiting Spain, England, and Germany. On that occasion, the president met with leaders of the leagues in the three countries, getting a firsthand look at some of the leading case studies in world football.
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