Can Lamacchia take charge of Vasco amid Leila Pereira connection? | OneFootball

The proposed sale of 90% of Vasco’s SAF to businessman Marcos Lamacchia has sparked a legal row over his family link to Palmeiras president Leila Pereira. With his father José Roberto Lamacchia, owner of Crefisa, backing the deal financially and married to Pereira, rivals including Flamengo have asked ANRESF to examine potential conflicts across the same division.

“But, in fact, under a literal reading, the rule does not cover relatives by affinity.” He was speaking on Redação sportv.

“The purpose of the rule is to safeguard the integrity of competitions and sporting fairness.”

Two readings are before regulators. A strict view says CBF rules and the General Sports Law bar only direct blood relatives, so a stepson, classed in civil law as a relative by affinity, is not expressly prohibited. Opponents argue the law’s intent is to stop one family influencing two Série A clubs, and that a stepson in charge would sidestep that safeguard.

On the letter of the law, Lamacchia can proceed and there is no automatic bar. The only risk would be a new precedent from ANRESF or the courts that applies the spirit of the rule to block the deal. As things stand, he appears free to buy control of Vasco’s SAF.

Vasco insist the operation is lawful, independent and compliant with the CBF’s new financial fair play. The parties await Judge Simone Gastesi Chevrand, of the 4th Business Court of the Rio de Janeiro state court, to authorise publication of the SAF auction notice after favourable opinions from the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Judicial Administration.

Source: PaponaColina

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