The Brazilian Sports Confederation (), also known by the

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CBD, was the main sports confederation of

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, competent in the matter of

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, and any sporting activity not belonging to a self-standing institution. Football played a prominent role since the statute stated that it constituted "the basic and essential sport of the Confederação Brasileira de Desportos". The CBD was born to overcome the contrasts between the '' Federação Brasileira de Futebol '' (FBF) and the '' Federação Brasileira de Sports '' (FBS), the two bodies that competed for hegemony in the organization of football in the country, an expression of the

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and

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football movement respectively. The establishment of the CBD led to the extinction of the two state entities on 21 June 1916, and in the same year, there was affiliation to

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. On 20 May 1923, it obtained affiliation to the

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. The Confederation also represented most of the Brazilian states in the sports sector. On September 24, 1979, after undergoing changes to its structure, the ''Confederação Brasileira de Desportos'' was renamed to ''

Confederação Brasileira de Futebol The Brazilian Football Confederation (, CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil. It was founded on Monday, 8 June 1914, as , and renamed Confederação Brasileira de Desportos in 1916. The football confederation, as known today, separ ...

'' (CBF), mainly as a consequence of a

decree, according to which all national football entities should be focused solely on the development of football. This was not the case with CBD, which, at the time, was involved in promoting all Olympic sports. Today each sport has its own confederation, and the entity that plays the role of developing the sport today through a global strategy and coordinating with all modalities is the

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