Latin America

Sports and music event promoter Fenix Entertainment is in talks to stage a Formula One grand prix in Buenos Aires in 2019, a move that would return the motor-racing series to Argentina for the first time in over two decades.

Panama-based Mimo International Exports and Imports has become the latest company or individual to be sanctioned as part of the US prosecution into corruption in world football and will be dissolved as part of its plea agreement.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has expanded its 3x3 World Tour with the addition of new events in Quito, Ecuador and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A senior executive from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has criticised Rio de Janeiro’s failure to commit to promises made regarding venue legacy from its staging of the 2016 summer Olympic Games.

The organising committee for the 2019 Pan American and Parapan American Games in Lima has agreed a hosting deal for the multi-sport event’s football competitions that will see it commit PEN47m (€12m/$14.6m) to redeveloping a stadium in the Peruvian capital.

Clubs from Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, the top division of Brazilian club football, have rejected the planned implementation of the video assistant referee (VAR) system in the league amid concerns over its cost.

Brazilian football star Neymar has signed an endorsement deal with Chinese consumer electronics company TCL.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has lifted the suspension imposed on the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), while it has approved venues at the 2020 summer Olympic Games for road cycling and race walking, and has outlined its intention to take the Youth Olympics to Africa.

American football league the NFL has announced that the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs will take to Mexico City in 2018 for the third consecutive year in which a regular season game has been played in the country.

Manuel Burga, the former president of Peru’s national football association, was acquitted of racketeering conspiracy two days after fellow ex-South American football officials Juan Napout and Jose Maria Marin were found guilty of multiple corruption charges in a US court.

Golf’s PGA Tour has announced that the Puerto Rico Open will return as an official event in 2019, with an unofficial tournament to be held on the island next year to support recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Marco Polo del Nero, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has today (Friday) been provisionally banned from all football activities for 90 days by the Ethics Committee of Fifa, the sport’s global governing body.

Prosecutors in closing arguments at the US trial of three former South American football officials have detailed the extent of payments made to the trio as part of the sport’s corruption scandal, as their defence lawyers argued that the evidence put forward is too weak to convict.

The South American Sports Organisation (ODESUR) has awarded hosting rights for the 2022 South American Games to the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion.

Outgoing U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati has claimed that a 2026 Fifa World Cup co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico would be the most commercial successful edition of the national team tournament to date.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has awarded hosting rights for the 2023 Basketball World Cup to the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.