The Traffic Group, which has more than twenty years operates in the sports marketing, has created in 2005, a football club-company - Desportivo Brasil. In order to train and prepare young football talents to work in professional clubs in Brazil and abroad, the company will offer a total training to boys aged 13 to 20 years. This preparing includes the training, physical improving, psychological and educational development for the formation of a highly skilled player and who is also differentiated of the other players.

"With this training, we are going to contribute for the technical and educational formation of young athletes, offering condition so they can be differentiated from other players. In addition, the training of these boys, in general, will give them the opportunity of a brighter future , even if not as a Professional football player", says Felipe Lobo Faro, football manager of Traffic Group.
 

Desportivo Brasil, founded on November 19th of 2005, is part of a strategy of the Traffic Group comprising two independent projects with focus in the area of football, which can also work together, providing great synergy. Besides the new club, the other initiatives of the company are: buying a franchise of a professional football team in the United States, Miami FC, and the partnership with Estoril, from Portugal.

In addition to these initiatives, the Manchester United Academy joined Desportivo Brasil for a partnership in football that will allow the exchange of athletes from both clubs, the opportunity to try new methods of training and also the participation in friendly matches.

Desportivo Brasil is located in Porto Feliz, countryside of São Paulo. Traffic Academy holds around 200 people and became a reference in the country because of its structure.