Informal Meeting in Hyderabad

The first informal meeting was held on October 16th in Hyderabad where Brazilian representatives met the Indian Organizing Committe to save the experience for the preparatory of the 5th MWG 2011.


The group was compose:
- Mauricio Romanato (Sport Ministry assistant)
- Prof Dr. Jose Roberto Gnecco (Sport Ministry assistant)
- Dinei Antonio Pasqualini (FIA Foundation)
- Paulo Campos (FIA Foundation)
- Lt-Col Antonio Ruy Costa Junior
- Lt-Col Pedro Barboza de Souza Ficho
- BGen Varma (Organizing Committe)
- CDR Uwe Rossmeisl (CISM Director Communication)

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Brazil has won!
Rio de Janeiro city will host the 2011 World Military Games.
 
Brazilian victory! On Friday, May the 25th, in Burkina Faso, Africa, the clocks read 0130pm local time (1030am in Brasília), when the President of the International Military Sports Council-CISM, General Gianni Gola, entered the auditorium with the result of the CISM poll. Mr Gola, addressing to more than 400 representatives of the greatest international military sports organization, announced that Brazil had just won, by means of a ballot, the race against Turkey aiming at hosting the 5th World Military Games in 2011. Representatives from over 75 countries had taken part in the poll.
 
The team from the Ministry of Defense, led by the president of the Brazilian Military Sports Commission, Air Force Major General Luiz Antonio Pinto Machado, had to fight for every vote to get Brazil elected. The struggle was successful. Pinto Machado got excited when he learned the result. "The hard work has been rewarded. I am very happy with the victory, but you know... from now on we have the immense responsibility for planning the event, which is intended to be inspired on the Pan American games, because the importance of both events is practically the same", he said. Emotioned, the CDMB president praised the Turkish campaign: "I am impressed with the gentlemanliness on the side of the Turkish, I do believe that the final score must have been tight, although we don´t  know it", he added.
 
In order to have the delegates side with Brazil, the members of the Brazilian team, supported by representatives of the Ministry of Sport and of Embratur, had the audience watch a film about Brazil, focussing on the infra-structure for the Pan American games. (more pictures)
The film also depicted interviews with main governmental and sports authorities. On the video, Valdir Pires, the Minister of Defense, backed the Brazilian candidacy: "Rio de Janeiro will be the stage of a really great military championship. We are all set and be welcome", he asserted. According to Pinto Machado, for the 2011 military games Brazil intends to support the African countries by providing their  delegations with transport to and lodging in Brazil.

Brigadier General Pinto Machado (on the right) and CISM President Brigadier General Gola signing the Preliminary Agreement for the 5th CISM Military World Games	Representatives from Brazil celebrating the victory