Stake appointed former footballer Eden Hazard as its global ambassador ahead of the 2026 World Cup. The company said he will take part in fan engagement and awareness campaigns across digital channels during the 2026 football season; Hazard also confirmed the appointment.
The appointment links Stake’s brand campaigns to the 2026 football season and World Cup.
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Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court Minister Luiz Fux suspended lower-court appeals challenging Provisional Measure 1,394/2026, which halted regulated online gambling, pending a final Supreme Court decision. Fux acted after Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet argued that conflicting lower-court rulings were creating legal uncertainty; challenges must now proceed at the Supreme Court or through congressional action on the measure.
Appeals in lower courts against the measure suspending regulated online gambling in Brazil have been frozen by Supreme Court Minister Luiz Fux, according to the source. The freeze on challenges to Provisional Measure 1,394/2026 will remain in place until the Supreme Court issues a definitive decision.
A TRF3 president’s decision to suspend the injunction allowing CDA Gaming to operate is due to take effect when the company is notified on Monday 9 November, the columnist wrote. The column says Casa de Apostas, described as the country’s only regulated betting operator still operating, will then go offline and return customers’ balances to their deposit accounts; the court decision also concerns the company’s authorisation.
Casa de Apostas is expected to go offline at 9am on 9 November when it is notified of a TRF3 decision suspending CDA Gaming's injunction, an opinion column on a Brazilian betting industry site said. The columnist said customer balances would be returned by that time to the accounts from which deposits were made.
TRF3 president Luís Antonio Johonsom di Salvo suspended a court order favouring CDA Gaming on 6 November, following a request from Brazil's Attorney General's Office. The decision extended an earlier ruling that had suspended relief granted to Stake, with the court citing the need to avoid differing treatment under national policy. Di Salvo and Attorney General Jorge Messias had signed a legal-advisory cooperation agreement for the court on 25 September.
TRF3 president Luís Antonio Johonsom di Salvo suspended relief granted to betting operator CDA Gaming on 6 November, following a request from Brazil's Attorney General's Office, the AGU. The decision affects an operator seeking to retain its authorisation after provisional measure 1.394/2026.
TRF3 president Luis Antonio Johonsom di Salvo suspended the injunction that had allowed CDA Gaming to resume fixed-odds betting in Brazil on 6 November. The ruling followed a federal government request and leaves no federally regulated betting operator active in the country, the source reports.
Stake Italia national director Fabio Angeli Bufalini said the impact of Italy's new online gambling concession regime would be clearer once its technical rules are fully implemented. He described the first year as a transition and cited 46 companies and 52 authorised domains, compared with more than 300 previously.
Stake is among the international operators that entered the Italian online gambling market through the new concession allocation procedure, and the concrete effects of the new regime can only be assessed once the new technical rules are fully applied, Fabio Angeli Bufalini, national director of Stake Italia, said at a panel on the regime a year after its introduction. The first year should be treated as a transition because a significant part of the regulatory changes has yet to take full effect, he said, pointing to the period after 15 February as an important step for understanding the impact of the changes.