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Alex Pussieldi is the subject of Chapter 9, “Sex, Lies, and Alex Pussieldi,” in the book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe.
by Irvin Muchnick
Azura Florida Aquatics, an age-group swimming program in Davie, just west of Fort Lauderdale, was founded shortly after Alex Pussieldi’s Nadadores in that city went under more than a decade ago. Or as the swimming news site SwimSwam euphemistically put it at the time, the Nadadores “sort of came apart.”
In fact, Pussieldi “retired” when Florida Gold Coast Swimming – the regional affiliate of USA Swimming – fined and suspended him and co-owner Tomas Victoria for hundreds of meet entry violations of ringers. The proximate cause was the Nadadores’ massive importation of young foreign athletes from around the world. Some of them were housed by Pussieldi, who – a USA Swimming investigation had revealed, following the coach’s assault of a whistleblowing swimmer on the deck of a practice at the program out of the International Swimming Hall of Fame complex in Fort Lauderdale – maintained a Peeping Tom video system in the bathroom, along with a collection of videotapes of his sex acts with underage boys.
As our reporting has explained, Pusssieldi moved back to his native Brazil and has become a major power player in swimming throughout Latin America.
That is, he moved back most of the time. Public records indicate he still has a residence in Fort Lauderdale and he still spends a lot of time there, and he may even still traffic swimmers across borders, and even still board some. On January 7, he posted on Instagram a photo of himself with others on deck at a meet in Coral Springs, Florida.
Which brings us back to Azura Aquatics. Guilherme Ferreira is the swimming coach at Montverde Academy in Central Florida. Ferreira’s biography lists among his mentors Pussieldi – and Gianluca Alberani, the native Italian who is Azura’s owner-head coach. Among the places where Azura has clinics is Brazil. Is this in partnership or association with Pussieldi?
Azura clearly has a business model very similar to that of the Nadadores. In itself, minus evidence of sexual abuse, this means little more than that Azura is a hyper-commercial operation in the profit-chasing sectors of a niche sport grounded by mass kid participation. Among other things, Azura is an official open water scholarship training center of the Swiss-based global governing body World Aquatics, successor to FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation).
Azura’s headquarters are at Nova Southeastern University. One of the end-game scandals of the Pussieldi regime was chaos surrounding the housing of foreign Nadadores swimmers at Nova Southeastern campus dormitories.
Today, according to local sources, a number of Azura swimmers live at the Palm Trace Landings apartment complex in Davie. It’s not clear if these arrangements involve sponsor or chaperone co-tenants. Palm Trace Landings did not respond to emailed queries from Concussion Inc.
Nor did Azura’s Alberani. Our questions to him:
* According to some swimming sources in South Florida, Azura Aquatics is for all practical purposes a “rebranding” of the Nadadores club of the disgraced Alex Pussieldi. What is your rejoinder to that criticism?
* You have announced clinics in Brazil. Are these in association with Pussieldi? Most specifically – does Pussieldi house any of your swimmers at his property in Fort Lauderdale or other South Florida properties?
* Do you have any other association with Pussieldi?
* Azura’s business model of having foreign swimmers from abroad seems to align with that of the old Nadadores. Is this an accurate statement? (I hasten to add that my reporting will not assert that there is evidence at Azura of the abuses documented in Pussieldi’s American coaching career.)
* According to my sources, a number of your foreign swimmers reside at the Palm Trace Landings apartment complex. Can you confirm? Do these swimmers live on their own or are they hosted or chaperoned by others? In what ways do these arrangements differ from Pussieldi’s housing of imported athletes on the Nova Southeastern University campus?
* Has Azura undertaken measures to avoid the fraudulent meet entry violations that led to fines and suspensions of Pussieldi and Tomas Victoria?