Ednaldo Rodrigues
{{Short description|Brazilian sports executive (born 1954)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = File:30.03.2023 - Apresentação da taça da Copa do Mundo Feminina FIFA Austrália e Nova Zelândia 2023 (52781601696) (cropped).jpg
| image_size = 220px
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|01|27|df=y}}{{Cite web |title=FIFA Council |url=https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/organisation/fifa-council |access-date=18 March 2023 |website=www.fifa.com |language=en}}
| birth_place = Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil
| nationality = Brazilian
| predecessor = Coronel Nunes
| title = 24th President of Brazilian Football Confederation
| termstart = 23 March 2022
| title2 = President of Federação Bahiana de Futebol
| termstart2 = 2001
| termend2 = 2018
| preceded =
| caption = Rodrigues in 2023
}}
Ednaldo Rodrigues Gomes (born 27 January 1954) is a Brazilian accountant, politician and sports executive, who has served as the 24th president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) since 2022.
Biography
Rodrigues was an amateur soccer player in the 1970s and 1980s. He obtained a degree in Accounting from Faculdade Visconde de Cairu in Salvador in 1991, while earning similar credentials in Financial Auditing at the same college, and administrative management by Fundação Getúlio Vargas.{{Cite web |last=estadaoconteudo |title=Conheça Ednaldo Rodrigues, presidente interino da CBF que busca 'limpar' o nome da entidade |url=https://www.terra.com.br/esportes/futebol/conheca-ednaldo-rodrigues-presidente-interino-da-cbf-que-busca-limpar-o-nome-da-entidade,5d8654ac750141fb6df96669c69b6d112r69yp1t.html |access-date=20 December 2022 |website=Terra |language=pt-BR}}{{Failed verification|date=December 2022}} He was president of the Liga Conquistense de Desportes Terrestres.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} He was also director of the Interior Department of the Federação Bahiana de Futebol (FBF), from 1992 to 2000, he was elected president of the FBF and re-elected twice more, from 2001 to 2018, and vice president of the CBF from 2018 to 2021.
He was interim president of the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol between 2021 and 2022.{{Cite web |date=25 August 2021 |title=Saiba quem é Ednaldo Rodrigues, dirigente escolhido para ser o novo presidente interino da CBF - Jornal O Sul |url=https://www.osul.com.br/saiba-quem-e-ednaldo-rodrigues-dirigente-escolhido-para-ser-o-novo-presidente-interino-da-cbf/ |access-date=20 December 2022 |language=pt-BR}} On 23 March 2022, he was elected president of the CBF.{{Cite web |title=Ednaldo Rodrigues é eleito o novo presidente da CBF |url=https://ge.globo.com/futebol/noticia/2022/03/23/ednaldo-rodrigues-e-eleito-o-novo-presidente-da-cbf-em-meio-a-briga-judicial.ghtml |access-date=20 December 2022 |website=ge |language=pt-br}} In December 2023, the TJ-RJ invalidated an agreement with the MPF that made his election possible. The decision was suspended by an injunction from Minister Gilmar Mendes, of the STF, in January 2024. {{Cite web |title=Ednaldo Rodrigues é reeleito presidente da CBF até 2030 |url= https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-sportsmkt/ednaldo-rodrigues-e-reeleito-presidente-da-cbf/ |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=pt-br}}
On 24 March 2025, he was re-elected with 100% of the votes.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-24 |title=Reeleito na CBF, Ednaldo Rodrigues teve apoio de 100% das federações {{!}} Metrópoles |url=https://www.metropoles.com/esportes/reeleito-na-cbf-ednaldo-rodrigues-teve-apoio-de-100-das-federacoes |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=www.metropoles.com |language=pt-BR}}
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Category:People from Vitória da Conquista
Category:Brazilian sports executives and administrators