New Minister of Sports recognizes electronic sports and plans to include it as new department

The brazilian gaming community has a new reason to get excited about in terms of politics. The new Minister of Sports, André Fufuca, has already spoken about electronic sports since he took on the new role this Wednesday, 13th. In an interview with ge, the politician has already said that he recognizes the industry, the tournaments and all revenue around this subject and that is why he will create an esports board. Fufuca goes against what his predecessor Ana Moser, positioned herself as. She caused outrage in the community when she took office and said that electronic sports were not sports.

“Yes, we consider esports as a sport. We see the capacity and how borad it is. You can see the amount of tournaments there are nationwide. It is impossible to turn a blind eye to this subject and we will treat it like sports, as I think it should be."