Desportivo Brasil Created and managed by Traffic, Desportivo Brasil’s main objective is to transform young promises of the Brazilian football into professional athletes capable of making a career in other clubs in Brazil and abroad. The permanent Training Center – named Academia Traffic de Futebol¬ - is located in the City of Porto Feliz, about 100 km from the City of São Paulo. Desportivo Brasil has a state-of-the-art training infrastructure, with medical, psychological and educational monitoring. The coach who is coordinating the technical area is Pita, a former star of the Santos, the São Paulo football clubs and of the Brazilian Team. The Training Center also counts with the Uruguayan Darío Pereyra, one of the best defenders of São Paulo history, to coordinate the young players in the training days.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers (formerly Miami FC), South Florida's only professional soccer team, is currently in its sixth season. Starting in the 2011 season, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers will play in the NASL (North American Soccer League). The team is owned by Traffic Sports USA, the North American subsidiary of The Traffic Group, the leading soccer event management company in the Americas with headquarters in Brazil, and offices in the U.S. and Europe. The organization is committed to the advancement of soccer in South Florida at the youth, amateur and professional levels.
Estoril Traffic Sports closed a deal with Estoril, from Portugal, in july of 2009. The company will manage the portuguese club for a year with the option to renovate for another season. There is also the possibility of Traffic buying part of the club after the first year.
Nowadays, Estoril competes on Second Division of the National League (Liga Vitalis) and also in other two tournaments: Carlsberg Cup (Taça de Portugal) and “Taça da Liga”. With the purpose of taking the club to the first division and to the ‘cream’ of the footbal society of Portugal,Traffic will also use this partnership with Estoril to promote an exchange of players of its own club, Desportivo Brasil, that has the headquarter in Porto Feliz, countryside of São Paulo state.
Players investment Traffic is organizing and will manage a group of investors that will invest R$40 million in the partial or total acquisition of the economic rights of football players who will play in the Palmeiras Football Club and in other Brazilian clubs. The objective is the valorization of the athlete for a future transfer to other clubs.
Talent Representation Together with agents accredited by FIFA, Traffic manages the careers of approximately 90 Brazilian players.
Traffic Observers In the job of discovering and developing new talents, the company maintains a team of observers led by Dario Pereyra. Under the guidance of the former star of the Sao Paulo club, the group selects talents from all over Brazil, who will undergo technical improvement in Desportivo BrasilÂ’s training center of the Desportivo Brasil.
Traffic Football Academy With five official fields and two for specific training, lodging for 120 players and coaching staffs, the complex the company inauguratted in Porto Feliz, 100 km from São Paulo, is the headquarters for Academia Traffic de Futebol, an experience that will be expanded to other regions in Brazil in the future, always under the technical command of Carlos Alberto Parreira.
