Sports of great value (as submitted to Planetary Magazine)

Submitted by Luciana Pimentel on Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 11:46:35 AM EST.

One of the most important things for Brazilian people is sport. We are fond of sports.
We have a lot of sports in Brazil, like volleyball, tennis, motor racing, swimming and gymnastics. But soccer is considered the main sport here.
In Brazil, we had and still have a lot of good soccer players like Pelé, Garrincha, Zico, Ronaldo, Romário and many others who came from low social classes. They started to play soccer on dirty fields under poor conditions. Being like some of these players is the dream of millions of children.
Volleyball is the second most popular sport in our country. Men’s and women’s teams have already won many medals.
The year we celebrated the tenth soccer tetra-championship anniversary , Brazil won the volleyball world championship, playing against Italy, the country defeated ten years before by the Brazilian team, at the world cup.
Nowadays, Brazilian gymnastics is being very well represented by our new star, Daiane dos Santos and her “Brasileirinho” (a song she uses to perform).
As we can see, sports have an important social cultural expression in Brazil, but the government should invest more in this area.

Class: B21
Luisa Carneiro Girão
Marcela da Silveira Loretti Mathias
Vivian Braga Pignatari de Moura

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