Rank of a Poisson structure is always even

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So I was reading a book on algebraic integrability. In the section about Poisson manifolds they say that the skew-symmetry of the Poisson matrix $X:=(\{x_i,x_j\})_{1\le i,j \le n}$ implies that the Rank of a Poisson structure at a point is always even. Can someone explain why that is? I tried to work it out but couldn't see it.

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For anyone asking the same question:
A basic fact about skew-symmetric matrices is, that they have even rank. A proof of that can be found here.
The second fact is that the rank of the Poisson matrix is equal to the rank of the poisson structure at a point $m$. I couldn't find an explanation for that so I posted a new question here.
The result follows.