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- Title
Sports Betting: Brazil.
- Authors
Pereira Borges, Maurício Ferrão
- Abstract
The article offers information on the manipulation of sport through illegal betting in Brazil. It provides an overview of betting and gambling prior to the legality of the Brazilian law of gambling and gaming including online gaming. It details the influence of the match-fixing in Brazilian football case called Edilson Case into the legislative sphere and legal amendments to the Fan's Bill of Rights Act. However, FIFA has ruled that games with match-fixing cases could be replayed and only the referee takes the disciplinary action.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ILLEGAL gambling; GAMBLING laws; INTERNET gambling laws; GAMBLING industry; ACTION &; defense cases; LEGISLATION; FEDERATION internationale de football association; LEGAL status of sports officials
- Publication
International Sports Law Review Pandektis, 2010, Issue 3/4, p134
- ISSN
1109-3943
- Publication type
Article