“No country banned it and it worked”: the remarks by Udo Seckelmann and José Francisco Manssur that irritated MP defenders at Brazil’s Supreme Court

At a public hearing at Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court on Provisional Measure No. 1.394/2026, two club presentations directly challenged the government’s case for banning fixed-odds betting. The sharpest pushback came from Udo Seckelmann, speaking for SAF Botafogo, and José Francisco Manssur, speaking for Cruzeiro, both of