Rodrigo Mattos reflects on the Botafogo imbroglio: ‘Difficult not to see it as a loss for the future of investments in SAFs in Brazil’

The dispute over Botafogo’s SAF control, involving John Textor and Eagle Football Holdings, may impact the future of foreign investments in Brazilian football. That’s what journalist Rodrigo Mattos believes, pointing out a potential legal insecurity regarding the issue. ‘A decision from the Rio de Janeiro court in favor of the American will raise a series of doubts about the SAF model in Brazil with foreign investment. After all, who will invest in a club-company in the country if there is no legal certainty about their money? This is the case when a company holds 90% of the shares in an SAF and can lose everything without seeing a single cent,’ wrote Rodrigo Mattos on his blog at ‘UOL.’