Great to hear about Indo-Brazilian interaction in so many fields including sports.
I had brought this up with Pele, in July 1988: Note-1: Frederick Noronha send me an very interesting article on Pele's views on indian footballs future, have look at it: India doesn't lack potential: says Pele -- by Alfred de Tavares Paris - Brazilian football legend Pele has said India does not in any way lack potential in sports, it just fails to mould its sportsmen well. "There is nothing -- I repeat nothing -- wrong with the athletic potential in India. The sad fact is the failure to mould this potential. India lacks nothing that Brazil or China has," Pele told India Abroad News Service here when asked about India's inability to excel in sports. Although reticent to be drawn into criticism of another country's difficulties, Pele, Brazil's Sports Minister, loosened up when told that his views might stimulate sportspersons and officials in India. "It has to do with the proper harnessing of the potential at the rightly malleable age," he said and went on to illustrate: "Do you know that most Chinese football players may speak Portuguese, for successive Chinese teams have been trained in Brazil!" Pele had a word of practical advice. "India does not have to look far for obtaining the right help in developing...at least, football," he said. "You have a long connection with Portugal. A more excellent football country is hard to come by. It would, indeed, be a great pity if such facility were not availed of." When asked about criticism in some quarters about the large number of Nigerians and other African players in Indian football, Pele said: "It is by no means a shame to use external influence to learn and develop expertise in fields that lack it." The enduring monarch of the world's most popular sport said, "If Nigerians, or any other players, help favourably influence Indian youth, more of them should be used; not campaigned against narrow-mindedly." --India Abroad News Service (Credit Mandatory) >From: "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" ><[email protected]> >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Goanet] Brazilian Foreign Minister dances to Remo's tunes >Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:08:10 +0530 > >Helga, here are some news items: > >Remo 'rocks' elite audience in Brazil (IANS) / New Ind Press >http://wapurl.co.uk/?443YCM2 > >Brazilians dance to Remo's tunes! (PTI) / Financial Express >http://wapurl.co.uk/?1U17Q4W > >Remo makes Brazil dance (Agencies) / DNA >http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1052865 > >Remo makes Brazilians dance to his tunes (PTI)/The Hindu >http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200609131021.htm > >Most reports seem emerging from the agencies, probably the press party >which went along with the PM to Brazil. Goa Observer editor Rajan >Narayan was among those on the trip. > >As far as the Brazilian papers go, the only references I could find >online to Indo-Brazil relations are: >http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200609131021.htm > >And if you use the Firefox browser like me, you can very easily >translate text from one web site to another... though I know you don't >need it for Portuguese (or even Brasilian!). --FN >_______________________________________________ >Goanet mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
