The Intelligence and Market Center (CIM FLA) was implemented to obtain, store, and organize football information. It concentrates data so managers across all football departments can make efficient decisions, from youth to professional levels. The department prospects, recruits, evaluates, and analyzes athletes, both internally and from the market.

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Marcos Biasotto is from Jundiaí, São Paulo, with a degree in physical education and a postgraduate degree in psychosociology of human motor function. He has played for several clubs throughout Brazil and is a former professional soccer player. He joined Flamengo in January 2013 as general coordinator of the youth teams. Biasotto designed the CIM FLA project and has worked in this area as intelligence and market manager since July 2014, when the department was implemented.

"After a year at Flamengo as general coordinator of the youth teams, I was invited and given full autonomy to implement and structure the Intelligence and Market Center at the club. With the entire project ready, I was able to implement the technological investment, systems implementation, and professional hiring," he said. 

 

The creation of CIM FLA is a new knowledge proposal, based on the constant search for new talent and mapping of the best soccer players in Brazil and abroad, with critical in-depth technical market and financial analysis. The team provides a secure database for hiring athletes through information and market observation history, whether on-site visit or stored by advanced software. CIM FLA also monitors and tracks Flamengo players who are loaned to other clubs.

 

At Mais Querido's base, CIM FLA maps all games in the Infantil, Juvenile, and Junior categories, which are filmed and analyzed. This mapping is used by the technical team to study and monitor the evolution of the categories. Understand CIM FLA's areas of operation:

CAD captures high-quality and stores images of all games, performs qualitative and quantitative, individual and collective analyses of the game, Flamengo and its opponents, organizes and edits what was marked in the games, according to protocols pre-defined by the club's analysts, in accordance with Flamengo's methodological line, makes a study of the game's actions before reporting the feedback for the technical committees, with weekly images and videos, it synthesizes the in-depth analysis information, so that the committee can have data from the previous game and the next opponent and reports the game and athlete information to the technical committees of the respective categories.

Each category has a performance analyst responsible for capturing information and storing extensive databases and individual images of the team and each player. Each analyst has access to advanced technology to ensure the quality of the collected material and its storage.

 

- Bebeto Sauthier, Porto Alegre native; works as an analyst for the professional team. He holds a degree in Physical Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and has been with the club since 2013. He played for the Brazilian national team at this year's U-20 World Cup in New Zealand.   

- Eduardo Bressane, from Porto Alegre, is an analyst for the under-20 team. He has a degree in Physical Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and has been with the club for a year and a half.

- Igor Oliveira, a youth analyst, is a native of Sergipe and holds a degree in Physical Education from the Federal University of Sergipe. He has played for several clubs in northeastern Brazil and joined Flamengo six months ago. He is a university professor and gives courses and lectures.

- Filipe Fuhrer, from Porto Alegre, is an analyst for the Children's team and holds a degree in Physical Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. In addition to his degree, he completed a course at UEFA and returned from Europe to Flamengo, where he has been for five months. 

- Stéphano Loyo, a Rio native, is a cinematographer, cameraman, and producer of various videos. He worked with the Swiss national team during the 2014 World Cup.

The Market Analysis department formats athlete databases, analyzes evaluative information, and stores it for future recommendations. Risk assessments and specific player profiles for potential club recommendations are created there, as well as all internal evaluations of players from Brazil and around the world.

Market analysis is conducted by analyst Fabrício Souza, a native of Cataguases, Minas Gerais. Fabrício holds a degree in Physical Education from the Federal University of Viçosa and a postgraduate degree in soccer from the same institution. He joined Flamengo in January 2013 and served as recruitment coordinator until joining the department.

 

One of the gateways to the Mais Querido youth teams is through Scouting, which monitors the data collected by observers traveling throughout Brazil and conducts selection processes. The Scouting team is coordinated by Luiz Carlos Junior, who is responsible for managing and organizing Scouting routines, establishing partnerships with Clubs, Projects, and City Halls, mapping information from each observed region, and organizing the database of observed, nominated, and monitored athletes. 

The Scouting team also includes observers Sérgio Guerrero, from São Paulo, and Thiago Araújo, from Rio de Janeiro, responsible for directly observing games and competitions and formatting Direct Observation reports; Mauro Felix, an evaluator responsible for providing training for the Selection Process and evaluating athletes pre-selected by the Observers and nominated by partners; Marlucy Ferreira, is responsible for registering athletes for the Selection Process according to the Evaluation Organization Chart, monitoring the exam release process in the Soma division and daily conference of the selection groups.