Play the Game day in Brazil
The event took place in SESC Vila Mariana, one of the more than 30 impressive sport and culture centres run by this organisation in the São Paulo area alone.
On this page you will find various types of documentation from the day. Here, you can download presentations from the Play the Game day in Brazil and watch photos taken by photographer Roberto Assem during the seminar.
Articles
The Play the Game day gathered 85 journalists, academics, sports leaders, business executives and students and revealed a Brazilian appetite for more sports debate.
The following articles sum up the presentations and discussions of the day.
Play the Game day revealed Brazilian appetite for more sports debate
The debate was heated and the media repercussion remarkable when 85 speakers and participants met in São Paulo last week to discuss legacy of mega-events, lack of sports democracy, FIFA relations and the need for a national Brazilian sports strategy.
World Cup and Olympics should make citizens active
In the host country of the next FIFA World Cup and Olympic and Paralympic Games there are numbers saying that 72 percent of Brazilians are not doing sport, and that 62 percent of people over 16 years are physically inactive.
Brazilians fight for transparency in games
New ways of networking and increased awareness against corruption in sport may become the most important legacies of Brazil’s hosting of the biggest mega-events in the next four years.
Download the programme
Download the conference folder
Download the list of participants
Presentations
Download presentations from the day:
Photos
Brazilian photographer Roberto Assem documented the Play the Game seminar in Brazil, his photos can be used with a credit to Roberto Assem and Play the Game.
Partners
Play the Game would like to thank the following for generous and kind support and co-operation in relation to the Play the Game seminar in Brazil:
Abraji (the Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism)
The Danish Cultural Institute in Rio
International Sport and Culture Association
Danish Association of Sports Journalists