Marcelo from Brazil has his weblog

Friends of Korfball in the world

The blog www.korfeblog.blogspot.com Korfball in Brazil, now have the ability to translate in several languages, which made access much easier, and with that everyone will understand what I have been doing in Brazil. A labor of love, affection and dedication to the Korfball.

I ask everyone to come to Brazil particularly in Rio de Janeiro, the city where I live to contact, our reality here and very different people who play Korfball are considered celebrities of the sport, I always want to schedule courses, lectures and training with the Brazilian team of korfball.

I'm sure the korfball become popular in Brazil, we can contribute much to the sport in the world and want to put Brazil in all competitions promoted by IKF

Korfball in Brazil

My dream my life and look out for Brazil this coming

Marcello Soares pioneers korfball in Brazil

On Tuesday, June 7, Petrópolis organized a korfball clinic in which Mr. Baby, former pivot of the Brazilian basketball selection, was also one of the visitors. This clinic was a big event promoted by the Brazilian team korfebol. The leaders of the clinic were the teachers of Educação Claudio Ferreira and Marcello Soares. The activity took place in Sesi, with the students' course of the physical education of the participation of SA Universidades Estacio and CPU.

Also present was the Minister of Municipal Sports and Recreation, Carlos Alberto Lanceta and João Henrique Areias, one of the pioneers of sports marketing in Brazil. Mr. Baby made ​​a beautiful presentation with the students. He still did not know korfball precisely.
The players confirmed the idea that korfebol and basketball can form a great partnership in the future. At the moment, the 11th team Korfebol Brasil will present at an event promoted by the Baby in Andef (Associação Niteroiense of physical education).

Marcello stories... (about how korfbal is presented in Brazil)

Korfebol (which is how the Brasilians spell korfball): modality is the new habit of the Petropolitans (inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro) in Brazil

Mayor Paulo Mustrangi talks with korfebol teacher Marcello Bepi Soares. Marcello brought korfebol to Brazil. The sport is already played by the children of the city, who play with former-athlete Robson Caetano.

In the city of Rio, "Korfebol" is getting to be more and more wellknown. Last March 20th, the modality was present in the leisure area in the Avenue Koeler, to teacher's Janine Meireles and Márcia Ladvocat of the commission of projects of the Municipal General office of Sports and Leisure. Korfebol is a sport from Dutch origin, that has been introduced in Brazil by teacher Marcello Bepi Soares and Cláudio Ferreira. Besides having a pedagogic element, the sport doesn't just focus on competitiveness, but on people's inclusion and their personal qualities. Macello tells:

“It is impossible to practice the korfebol sport and not to fall in love with it. In this sport all the apprentices play with an equal amount of participation (different from other modalities where the most skilled have all of the chances and the others are excluded). In korfebol we dont make a distinctions between sex, height or force.
All are welcome to play korfebol, which is a cooperative game. The representatives in Brazil, teachers Marcello Bepi Soares and Claudio Ferreira were present to the event, teaching the modality and even making mayor Paulo Mustrangi play korfebol. At the end of the presentation the teachers thanked everyone for the opportunity to show the Dutch sport to the petropolitans.”

Korfebol is a choice of sports that incorporates sensational dynamic sport characteristics. For the last 10 years korfebol has been highlighted mostly within schools.

“Right now our objective is to grow the korfebol sport in Petrópolis. For that we are trying to start a partnership with the City hall, which is close to the municipal plan of sports. We also try to find a place for korfebol in the Street of Leisure; on Sundays in the Avenue Koeler. We are also looking for partnerships close to the schools and the sporting spaces of the city so that the modality can grow more quickly. More details on the sport can be found in the Brazilian popularization blog.”

Brazil

From the IKF website:
Brazilian Korfball progressing well
Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:37

Mr Marcello Bepi Soares has recently visited the city of Petrópolis (Rio de Janeiro) to further develop the sport of korfball in Brazil.
On April 1st Korfball was demonstrated in the sport club "Esporteverde"and then presented via live coverage on Brazil sports television TV ADONAI.
The successful day was closed by the demonstration of Korfbal to children of the State School Odete Fonseca in Petrópolis who had the opportunity to try playing themselves as well.

For more information please visit the Blog of Korfball Brazil: www.korfeblog.blogspot.com

Korfebol in Brazil

Marcelo the pioneer from Brazil, informs us about a new initiative:
In the project that has been used for reception of resources, an image of what would be the Municipal Park: a great sporting compound. / Reproduction
Servant in January for a group of entrepreneurs, authorities and sportsmen, with the objective of creating conditions so that Petrópolis is benefitted by sporting events as the World cup of 2014 (Brazil 2014) and the Olympic Games, in Rio, in 2016 (Rio 2016), the Sporting Movement of Petrópolis (MEP) it already got to collect R$ 10 million for investments in the preparation of the city to receive delegations and selections that will need an appropriate space to accomplish trainings. "This value is already approved by the Federation of Athletics of Rio de Janeiro. It is a budget that would be addressed for another city, in the Fluminense North, and that we got to address for Petrópolis", it explains to the general coordinator of the Sporting Movement of Petrópolis, Cláudio Roche, that is president of the company Allen Informática, that brought for Petrópolis the Center of Microsoft and it began the movement to have Petrópolis as sub-thirst of the sporting events of international load.

The largest challenge of the group is to recruit resources inside for the construction of sporting facilities of the international patterns, among the ones which a sporting compound, built in agreement with the prerequisites of the International Olympic Committee (COI), in the area of the Park of Exhibitions, in Itaipava. The sporting compound is composed by stadium for athletics; arena multiuso for five thousand people, with center of conventions; swimming pool Olympic cover; center of sporting medicine; academy university of the Sport; library and museum of the sport; hotel of traffic with accommodation for 50 people; area for gymnastics for third age and sporting initiation. In agreement with the representatives of MEP, the projects are fundamental to enable Petrópolis as candidate to receive soccer selections that will dispute the Cup of the Confederations in 2013, the World cup in 2014 and the Cup of America in 2015.

For so much, the group will look for resources with investors, deprived initiative and budgets made possible through the law of fiscal incentive to the sport. The group created four new tools for reception of resources for sporting entities associated to MEP. Among these it is the Club of Sponsors of MEP (P-30), that foresees the sale of 30 patronage quotas, being 10 in the category Bronze; 10 in the category Silver; and 10 in the category Gold. "Before even of the release, we are already with four sold quotas. The first ones to acquire the quotas were Allen Informática, Acorp of Brazil, Unimed and Pled Bhering. To the whole they are 30 quotas. Besides, we created the mark "domP", to produce uniforms of sporting entities associated to the movement, as well as of employees of companies; the official fan of the Highland, that it is a kit, with shirt and cap official of the team, a clothes sporting "domP" and a card personalized for entrance in the games; and the Athlete Official Foot of Wind, kit with the new shirt and cap official Foot of Wind, exclusive bottle and personalized" card, explains to the director of businesses of MEP, João Henrique Areias.

In the category Bronze, each annual quota of patronage costs R$ 36 thousand; in the category silver, the annual quota can be acquired by R$ 48 thousand and in the category gold, each quota annual cost R$ 60 thousand. The members of the movement stress that besides associating the mark to a linked image to the sport, the company will be present also in social projects of impact close to communities of the city, through actions of social inclusion and education for the sport, sporting leisure, sporting initiation and sport for the third age. Among the activities accomplished by MEP in partnership with the City hall is Petrópolis Saúde and Leisure. We will "have a social-sporting event, with athletic orientation and of health. We will also have the leisure Street, that has the objective of to strengthen that movement and to create in the population the habit for the sport, not only to condition the athletes, but also to stimulate the sporting practice in the population, improving like this the quality of the people's" life, it considers the municipal secretary of Sports, Carlos Alberto Lanceta.

JAQUELINE RIBEIRO
Composition Tribune