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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The next president of the Brazilian soccer confederation took office Tuesday with allies hoping he can clean up the image of the scandal-tainted body.Rogerio Caboclo www.thetopsoccer.com/poland , a 46-year-old finance lawyer, ran as the only candidate and follows a group of men who have been discredited, investigated, suspended from FIFA and even jailed because of corruption.“I am aware of CBF’s worn out image, I will face this. We will increase our governance controls. I will not tolerate any suspicious practice of misconduct,” Caboclo said in his inauguration speech.One of his predecessors, Marco Polo del Nero, was key to Caboclo’s election by removing other candidates from contention. The former CBF president, who had the job from 2015-18, doesn’t travel outside Brazil because of the risk of imminent arrest.The biggest challenges for Caboclo will be ending Brazil’s World Cup title drought, dating back to 2002, improving the country’s youth teams and moving the national governing body away from scandal. His election slogan was “transparency and efficiency.”Besides running the confederation Cheap Portugal Soccer Shirts , Caboclo will also lead the organizing committee of this year’s Copa America, which will be played in Brazil from June 14-July 7.But he started with some smaller measures, such as announcing that former Arsenal, Barcelona and Manchester City defender Sylvinho will be Brazil’s coach for the Tokyo Olympics next year. He also revealed a redesign of the Brazil crest, with a sharper blue tone around CBF’s name and fewer stripes on each side. Instead of two yellow stripes with a green one in the middle, the new design only includes one yellow and one green stripe.The Brazilian also tried to distance himself from his mentor Del Nero.“I am grateful to those that preceded me. But I have total independence,” the new CBF head said.Caboclo started in soccer in the early 2000s at Sao Paulo as finance director. Then he took the same role at Sao Paulo state’s soccer federation, chaired then by Del Nero.He also worked in the 2014 World Cup organizing committee as a link between FIFA and the CBF, chaired then by Jose Maria Marin, who is currently serving a four-year sentence in New York for corruption.Saint-Clair Milesi, the former communications director of the World Cup in Brazil, said Caboclo’s style could help the CBF’s image.“He was a calming presence in our committee at a time Marin took over the CBF because of investigations on his predecessor Cheap Russia Soccer Jerseys , Ricardo Teixeira,” Milesi told The Associated Press. “Caboclo was the man dealing with the tougher problems in a way that Marin could understand and make his decisions. He also speaks English, which is a plus if you think of the last heads of the CBF.”Caboclo was also the head of Brazil’s delegation at the World Cup in Russia. In a move that allies say is an example of his discretion, he silently gathered the support of more than 30 Brazilian soccer executives by paying their trips with CBF money. Caboclo also received the credit for a renegotiation of Brazilian Cup TV rights in 2018 that made the champion of the tournament earn about $15 million in prize money, almost five times more than in the previous deal.FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended Caboclo’s inauguration and said the Brazilian gave him a positive impression. Brazil has had little say in soccer politics since former CBF head Ricardo Teixeira left the job in 2016 amid corruption allegations.“To improve (Brazil’s) image he needs to show serious work and develop soccer,” Infantino told journalists.Alejandro Dominguez, the head of South America’s soccer body CONMEBOL, said Caboclo is committed to move Brazil’s confederation past the scandals.“It is time to modernize soccer, and Rogerio is a partner in that direction,” said Dominguez, who also took his job amid a wave of accusations against top CONMEBOL leaders.But adversaries are never far away. Former Brazil great Romario, now a senator replica football jerseys from China , said he will try to remove Caboclo from the job via the courts because of his connection to Del Nero.Caboclo will also have to sweeten Brazil’s relations with other South American soccer executives that are still upset with the decision of Antonio Carlos Nunes de Lima, who presided over the CBF after Del Nero was suspended, to vote for Morocco’s losing bid to host of the 2026 World Cup.The other South American national bodies voted for the winning bid of the United States, Canada and Mexico. CAIRO (AP) — Mohamed Salah’s intervention helped get Amr Warda back on the Egyptian national soccer team despite accusations that he sent lewd messages to two women.Warda was originally expelled from the team at the African Cup of Nations, but Egyptian soccer federation president Hany Abou Rida reversed the decision on Friday following a plea from Salah and other teammates, and a meeting with the national team that was attended by the country’s minister of sports on Thursday.“During the meeting, (Abou Rida) praised players for their sense of solidarity, their desire to see their teammate pardoned, to end his suspension, and also for their respect of any decision made by the EFA in this regard,” the federation wrote on its website. “Hence, he decided to alleviate the sanction by suspending the player only until the end of the group stage.”Egypt www.thetopsoccer.com/spain , which has already qualified for the knockout stage after beating Congo on Wednesday, has only one match left to play in the group stage. The game against Uganda is scheduled for Sunday.On Wednesday, the Egyptian federation issued a brief statement saying Abou Rida had decided to send Warda home to maintain “discipline, commitment and focus” in the squad. The decision came after videos emerged of women alleging that Warda verbally harassed them.Warda initially denied the allegations but he soon posted a video on his Facebook page where he apologized to his family, teammates and coaches.“I promise you that everything will be fine and that I won’t do anything that would be upsetting to anyone,” the 25-year-old player said.Salah condemned Warda’s behavior on Twitter but said he should be given “a second chance.”“Women must be treated with the utmost respect. ‘No’ means ‘no.’ Those things are and must remain sacred,” the Liverpool forward wrote on Thursday. “I also believe that many who make mistakes can change for the better and shouldn’t be sent straight to the guillotine, which is the easiest way out.“We need to believe in second chances … we need to guide and educate. Shunning is not the answer.”Egypt captain Ahmed el-Mohamady also showed solidarity with Warda. After scoring against Congo on Wednesday, El-Mohamady celebrated his goal by making a 22 sign with his fingers in reference to his teammate’s shirt number.However, Salah’s comments in particular elicited the ire of many of his fans on social media and reignited the debate on Egyptian society’s tolerance of injustice against women.Ghadeer Ahmed, a young Egyptian feminist, mocked Salah on Facebook by changing his nickname from “The pride of Arabs” to “The pride of sexual harassers.”Sexual harassment Cheap Sweden Soccer Shirts , mostly ranging from catcalls to occasional pinching or grabbing, is rampant in Egypt. Polls have found that a majority of both men and women in the conservative Muslim country believe it is justified if women dress “provocatively” in public.According to a survey by the U.N. women’s agency, released in April 2013, nearly 99 percent of Egyptian women reported having been sexually harassed, with 91 percent saying they feel insecure in the street as a result.Amro Hassan Elserty, a journalist and soccer commentator, called Salah an “absolute disgrace” on his Facebook page.“I’ll never ever support a team of sexual harassment endorsers, who believe in giving second chances to someone who has long been imposing himself on females and sexually harassing them for years,” Elserty wrote.Since Thursday, the hashtag “unfollow_mosalah” has started attracting social media users who voiced their disillusionment with Egypt’s 27-year-old striker.