The South American Board of New Football Federations ( es, Consejo Sudamericano de Nuevas Federaciones de Fútbol, pt, Conselho Sul-Americano de Novas Federações de Futebol), also known by its acronym COSANFF (formerly known as ''CSANF'') is the administrative and controlling body for non-FIFA football federations in South America.Olé: FUTBOL INTERNACIONAL - No FIFA
It was also initially affiliated with the now defunct

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. CSANF was founded on 25 May 2007 and is based in

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. One of the founders, Gonzalo Esteban Parada is the current

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CSANF Cup

The CSANF Cup, sometimes called the Alternative America Cup (in Spanish Copa América Alternativa), is the main competition organized by CSANF between the football teams of the peoples and regions affiliated with the CSANF. The first CSANF Cup was launched in 2011, a modest arrangement because of financial difficulties. The single match elimination of the loser was adopted. The following Cup events were in 2014 called CSANF Cup - Fraternidad Internacional and the third was in 2017 called CSANF Cup - 10 Años o celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the CSANF

Affiliated associations in Confederation of Independent Football Associations

Since 2019, CSANF has some associations affiliated to

Confederation of Independent Football Associations The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA. Competitions Women's football All members of CONIFA are encouraged to inv ...

(ConIFA). The champion of the CSANF Cup, has the right, if affiliated at the same time with CONIFA, to qualify automatically to the following edition of the ConIFA World Cup as representative of the South American group. It is worth mentioning that this was a new opening, as until the 2019 agreement, ConIFA did not have any South American representation. However the CSANF champion was not obliged to participate in case it didn't want to. If the CSANF champion was not an affiliate or has financial issues that kept it from taking part, the CSANF runner-up (if affiliated with ConIFA) would earn the right to take part.

Members

* Isla de Pascua and Esperanto were earlier members of the now-defunct NF-Board * Isla de Pascua and Mapuche Nation are members of

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Potential Members

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Staff

Currently, CSANF has representatives in 5 of 13 South American countries -

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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- and one special representative in

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. In total are 16 members, including the president, vice-president and the general secretary.

Board

* Gonzalo Esteban Parada (President) * Thiago Fernandes Monteiro (Vice-President) * Gonzalo Flores Domarchi (Secretary General) Other representatives (current and earlier) * Facundo Mango Vorrath * Javier Luis Parada * Jorge González Aburto * Benedito Júnior * Anderson Fernandes Borges * Esteban Riveros Zárate * Daniel Stéfano Cañete * Raúl Sánchez (Special Representative)

Footnotes

External links

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Video of an interview with the representative for Brazil in a Television Channel (in Portuguese)
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