If you play the same club every week of every month, it’s kind of boring. It’s great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It’s amazing what you see if you travel around the world.
Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii.
Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Throughout their career, the likes of Xavi and Andres Iniesta have all been taught to a play a certain way. English players have been taught a different way, just like Brazil have been taught a different way.
My first word for the people of Brazil is the word ‘confidence.’ Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.
The No 10 shirt? Yes, I understand what it means in Brazil. The icon number. Yes, it’s important. It is the number given to a creative player, and I am happy to have that responsibility, but it is not your shirt number that defines you: it is what you do with a football.
My parents eventually moved back to Brazil, so since then, it has been me and my wife, although they are always involved.
In Brazil, we don’t have Victoria’s Secret, and my family are all Victoria’s Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces.
Training in Brazil at Nova Uniao was nothing short of amazing. I can’t thank Leo Santos and coach Andre Pederneiras enough for their efforts.
I was delighted to be called back into the Brazil squad. I think it was one of the most exciting moments of my life, just because of everything I had been through and it feeling like I had been given a second chance.
‘Britain’s Got Talent’ just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I’m able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I’d visit – Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.
Do invest in Brazil, and you shall not regret it.
In Ukraine as well as in Brazil, Manchester City is now considered one of the best teams in the world, and after I signed, people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams in the world.
Brazil is on my side.
Anytime you spar at a new dojo, whether it’s in Japan, Brazil, or Thailand, the fighters come after the new guy. It’s a way to test yourself against the best and to sharpen your technical skills and push yourself to be the best you can be.
Of course when you talk about Corinthians, the club that launched me, I have a great affection. But honestly, I don’t think about returning to Brazil.
I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience.
This was during a period when I was producing Brazil ’66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.
Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.
You think about past World Cups – in 2006, it was a fantastic Brazil team, but we did not do so well that year. In 2010, the same: it did not go far, either – only the quarter-finals. But in ’94 and 2002, Brazil did not play the best football but won the World Cup; they found a way to win.
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
My favorite English teacher in high school showed me ‘Brazil’ when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It’s one of those movies that’s revealed itself in different ways as I’ve gone back to it over the years.
Our people love soccer more than they do in Brazil.
There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today’s politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.
Playing for Chelsea doesn’t compare to the pressure of playing for Brazil because we’ve won the World Cup five times. It’s not only a massive country but football is part of the culture. They always want you to win, so you can never have an off-day.
Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
When Brazil take part in any competition they must always play to win.
In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That’s the first gift – so my dad was no different.
I left Brazil very early, before reaching the top level of the Brazilian championship. That made a difference: I was not seen as a ‘name’ around the country.
Brazil was a very good experience. I learned a lot about how to play football, both technical and physical. There would be a hundred kids of all ages, training and doing classes together.
I’ve traveled to Brazil, Europe, Asia – all in preparation to defeat Demetrious Johnson, to defeat the pound-for-pound best fighter in history.
In 2011, when I was in Corinthians, I received an offer from Russia that offered me to win 10 times more than in Brazil and I answered: ‘What I can do with five, I can do with two.’
Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it’s widely followed in Brazil.
Portugal and Brazil have a history but we’re brothers and sisters. They are very passionate people, especially about MMA – just as Brazilians are passionate about MMA.
I don’t think there is rivalry between the teams in Brazil. We each do our jobs, and we each have our part in MMA.
I have been a big admirer of Coutinho, and he can be a very important player for Liverpool and Brazil.
I’m not going to negotiate with Brazil for its pretty face. I’m going to negotiate with Brazil because they’re going to open their car-manufacturing market.
The thing is that we live in a presidential system with a parliamentary constitution. Congress has a lot of weight in Brazil, and the president cannot always do when he wants; he does what he can.
I thought I would get to where I wanted to in Brazil when I was about 30, but by 22, I was already doing great.
I don’t want any country buying up Brazil, but we will do business with all countries, and China is an exceptional partner.
I advise everyone with plans to visit Brazil for the Olympics in Rio – to stay home. You’ll be putting your life at risk here. This is without even speaking about the state of public hospitals and all the Brazilian political mess.
Do I need to know about medicine to solve the health problem in Brazil? Do I need to know about agriculture to advance the agribusiness?
The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.
Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
When I’m in beautiful places like Madagascar or Brazil, I think about how I would love to share the experience with friends and family.
I played in a city in Brazil where there are only two big clubs and Internacional versus Gremio was unbelievable – the pressure, the team atmosphere and everybody flying on the adrenalin.
Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It’s the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There’s something pretty inequitable there.
Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires.
Between the ’80s with The Midnight Express and the ’90s with The Heavenly Bodies, and then in the 2000s on the reunions with The Midnights, I think only Bobo Brazil and The Sheik had a longer-running rivalry.
In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the ’70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn’t stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
I’ve been managing myself for some time now, and after accomplishing many goals here in Brazil, I knew it was time to make new contacts and do bigger things on an international level.
Guys come to play against Brazil and want to intimidate, putting their hands on us, talking, wanting to hit us.
It’s scoring goals that’s great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.
I am a Brazilian, I represent Brazil, I train there and I’m going to be a champion for Brazil.
I’m only a little interested in politics. But I’m always on top of the news, both in Brazil and abroad.
We’re in Brazil here: Great Brazil just like the Great America of our dear Trump.
