Robinho, Robson de Souza
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Date of birth: 25.01.1984
Country: Brazil
Club: Santos
Height: 170 cm
Weight: 60 kg
Role: forward
Biography
A so-called “new Pele” appears in Brazil every year. Football journalists often give this name to good, but not super-talented, footballers. Recently we have an opportunity to watch a birth of a new football “miracle”.
And Pele himself has opened this “miracle”. In 1999 a great guru came back to his dear Santos to be a couch for growing youth. During the first day of his work he noticed a 15-years-old guy named ROBINHO.
After training Pele came to a boy and told he reminded him of himself in his young years. And really, they physically resembled each other a lot - both swarthy, thin and with cheeky smiles, that throw into confusion.
Pele was very glad to such a windfall. This teenager coped with a ball capitally. Pele invited a boy’s father for the next training. A great player worried that atmosphere a boy was brought up in can damage his football carrier.
Brazil - is the largest manufacturer of beef, sugar, coffee and professional footballers in the world. Young guys from all cities do want to be footballers - this dream is probably the most popular in Brazil. Ability to play football - is one of signs of their nationality. But social inequality is also widespread in Brazil. Whereas middle class earns money, comparable to European, the poorest groups are just leading a beggarly life. Football is one of few ways to escape poverty for millions of Brazilian boys. There’s also sad alternative - crimes and sale of drugs.
ROBINHO had to come through all these troubles. He was born in one of the poorest district of the city. His father was a usual plumber, mother - a charwoman. His family had no money. His only passion was playing with a ball since morning till night. ROBINHO managed to avoid traps of poor Brazilian youth - drugs and delinquency.
But let’s return to that training. Father came with his son the following week. Pele was asking a boy’s father about his son’s behavior at home and in school for a long. Soon the “Football King” had to change his line, but his admonitions were not lost on them.
Three years later, being 18, Robin made his debut in Santos main team. His team friend Diego and he became starts of the season. In 2002 this couple leaded Santos to a champion’s title in national Brazilian championship 20 years later. Diego showed his worth as a creative half-back, but Robinho eclipsed everybody. Young forward managed to score 9 goals in 29 matches.
He showed striking dribble and confused rival’s full-backs with almost offensive ease. This footballer even had his own trick
Soccer In America - Why Isn’t It As Popular As Football In The Rest Of The World
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It is worth taking a look at the nature of sport, in particular team sports, in the USA to really understand where I am coming from on this. You see around the world there are a few sports which really catch the imagination not just of nations, but of continents. Football is the premier example of this infectious love for a game that can change lives.
Take Brazil as an example of what football means around the world. How many people can tell you anything at all about one of the largest countries on the globe - Amazon rain forest and… oh yeah, football.
Pele is the undisputed king of football and sums up everything about Brazil to the outside world. An ordinary boy with extraordinary skill, went on to become the best known footballer ever. The name ‘Pele’ is familiar to every young boy in Europe, Asia and Africa - he’s the player they want to become, in the game he wanted to play. But in America the children grow up wanting to play a sport that will probably never see them known outside of their own backyard!
American Football : Almost solely played in the US and yet one of the biggest sports in America. It’s impossible to imagine that this game could have been devised from anything other than Rugby, with a huge helping of protective padding to enable even the wimpy boys to join in! All that protection and a separate team for offence, defence and kicking - and yet it’s stilled played at such a pace that it takes nearly four hours to get through.
Baseball : Could hardly have been more like Rounders if it tried - the only difference is that rounders is for girls! I can understand that some might even suggest that it’s actually Cricket that may be the non-American version of Baseball, but there would be ten times as many who would faint at the very idea. Cricket has become one of the most important parts of life in some of the poorest areas of the world, like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Baseball on the other hand is limited to the US, with a Japanese team thrown in to make a World Series!
Basketball : Just like baseball, the favourite of many Americans is derived from a European girls game, called Netball. Not being able to keep to the rules, the US boys started running with the ball and bouncing it around, they gave it a new name and now we have Basketball.
So am I being anti-American here? certainly not. The US sports fans have a love for their chosen game just like the rest of us around the world. We have our superstar footballers and they have Michael Jordan. The problem is the perception of those of us that share a global fascination with the same sports, while the US seems to avoid international competition by making up its own sports and not letting the rest of us join in. In my opinion there would be nothing better for football than for the Americans to get behind it 100%, throw an obscene amount of money at it and turn it into the one and only truly global game. The chances are slim, but we can only hope.
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The culture of Brazil is rooted in the culture of Portugal. The Portuguese settlers & immigrants brought the Catholic faith, the Portuguese language and several traditions & customs that however determine the modern-day Brazilian culture.
As a multiracial country, its culture likewise absorbed extra determines. The Amerindian peoples shaped Brazil’s language & cuisine and the Africans, brought as slaves, largely acted upon Brazil’s music, dance, cuisine and language. Italian and German immigrants came in prominent numbers and their influences are felt closer to the South of Brazil.
The Brazilian Carnival is an annual celebration in Brazil took hold forty days prior to Easter & marking the start of Lent. During Lent, Roman Catholics, which one constitute the majority in Brazil, are to abstain caused by bodily pleasures. Carnival, which is celebrated as a profane festival, can thus be compared to a farewelling of the pleasures of the flesh.
In Brazil, Carnival as a all exhibits some disputes with its counterparts in Europe and other parts of the world, & within the country itself it is manifested in distinguishable ways in the diverse areas.
Rio de Janeiro
The contemporary Brazilian Carnival finds its roots in Rio de Janeiro in the 1830s, when the city’s bourgeoisie imported the done of holding balls & masquerade parties derived from Paris. It originally mimicked the European form of the festival, over time acquiring elements derived from African & Amerindian cultures.
In the last 19th century, the cordoes (literally laces in Portuguese) were presented in Rio de Janeiro. These were groups of people who would process through the streets playing music and dancing. In todays world they are have a go at it as blocos (blocks), consisting of a group of people who dress in costumes according to certain topics or to celebrate the Carnival in particular ways. Blocos are generally associated with particular neighbourhoods or suburbs and include both a percussion or music group & an entourage of revellers.
In the period of the Carnival, a fat man is elected to represent the role of Rei Momo, the “king” of Carnival.
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is have a go at it worldwide for the elaborate parades presented by the city’s major samba schools in the Sambadrome & is one of the world’s huge tourist attractions.
Samba schools are very heavy, well-financed organizations that work through and through the year in preparation for Carnival. Parading in the Sambadrome runs over four total nights & is part of an functionary contest, split up into seven divisions, in which one a single samba school will be declared that year’s winner. Blocos deriving given by the samba schools also hold street parties in their various suburbs, through and through which they process along by owning their followers.
Religion
* 73.6% of the people is Catholic, causing Brazil the country sustaining the biggest Catholic population in the world.
* 7.4% of the population reckon themselves agnostics or atheists.
* Spiritism constitutes 1.3% of the population (about 2.3 million).
* 1.8% are members of other faiths. Some of These are Latter-day Saints Followers), Jehovah’s Witnesses Followers) Buddhism Seicho-No-Ie, Judaism , & Islam
* 0.3% are Following of African traditional religions such as Candomble, Macumba, and Umbanda.
* Some practice a intermixture of different faiths, such as Catholicism, Candomble, & indigenous American religion combined.
Sports
The most popular sport in Brazil is football (soccer), and the country is renowned for the character of its players, including Ronaldo, Pele, Ronaldinho, Jairzinho, Rivelino, Zico, Romario, Carlos Alberto, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Garrincha, & most recently, Kaka and one of the globe’s most acknowledged players and the current holder of the title of best football player in the world, Ronaldinho.
The Brazilian national football team has been victorious in the globe Cup tournament a record five times and after the 3rd time, Brazil kept the world Cup trophy permanently.
Brazil has likewise accomplished success in more international sports, mainly volleyball, basketball, tennis, gymnastics & auto racing.
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