It’s a choice any coach would welcome: When Ronaldo returns, which of Brazil’s soccer stars should he replace? It’s the decision Carlos Alberto Parreira will have to make — and it got tougher on Sunday when Brazil’s improvised front line led a steamroller offence that routed Paraguay 4-1 in a World Cup qualifier.
Three-time Fifa player of the year Ronaldo was dropped from the Brazilian national team for two World Cup qualifiers and the Confederations Cup, the Brazilian soccer confederation said on Monday. ”Ronaldo claimed personal problems that prevent him from dedicating himself to the team at the moment,” Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said.
Brazil’s 1994 World Cup winning footballer Romario said on Tuesday that the birth of his sixth child with Down’s syndrome had made him ”a happier and more tolerant” person. Ivy, born a month ago, was the 39-year-old footballer’s second daughter from his fourth wife Isabelle Bittencourt, who is in her 20s.
Microsoft launched a scaled-back version of its Windows operating system in Brazil on Wednesday, hoping to get more people using computers in Latin America’s largest country while cutting down on rampant software piracy. Brazil becomes the first country in the western hemisphere to get the low-cost XP Starter Edition.
A Brazilian referee punched a fan who attacked him on the field during a soccer match in the Minas Gerais state championship on Sunday. Referee Luiz Carlos Silva fought back after the fan ran on the field and started punching and kicking him two minutes from the end of a heated game between rivals America and Atletico Mineiro at Mineirao stadium.
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/ 24 November 2004
Nazi war physician Josef Mengele’s last thoughts and views have come to light, including the fact that he did not repent the atrocities he committed, in letters and diary notes recovered from police archives and published on Tuesday in Brazil.
Contents of 85 documents were translated from German to Portugese and have now been published in an exclusive by the Brazilian newspaper Folha.
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/ 29 October 2004
A Brazilian legislator wants to make it illegal to give pets names that are common among people. Federal congressman Reinaldo Santos e Silva proposed the law after psychologists suggested that some children may get depressed when they learn they share their first name with someone’s pet.
Rescuers have failed to free a humpback whale that washed up on a beach over the weekend, and biologists said on Tuesday its chances of survival are slim. More than 100 people still struggled to get the 10-ton whale off Jurujuba beach just across Rio de Janeiro at the entrance to Guanabara Bay and back into the ocean.
Namibian President Sam Nujoma met on Monday with Brazil’s leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to discuss increased trade between their two countries, including defence equipment, and bilateral cooperation. Nujoma was on an official visit to Brazil. He arrived on Sunday in the company of five ministers on a two-day trip, returning the favour after Lula travelled to Windhoek in November.
Brazil’s government has accepted an apology to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from lawyers for a New York Times reporter who wrote an article suggesting the president has a drinking problem, the justice minister said on Friday. The article said Silva’s drinking habits have become a ”national concern” in Brazil.
A child died in a collapsed house and seven fishermen were missing and feared dead early on Sunday as a large spiralling storm lashed the coast of southern Brazil, civil defence officials said. Meanwhile, meteorologists disagreed over whether the storm was a hurricane — the first on record in the South Atlantic.
HIV-positive patients have lower levels of a protein associated with bone density, according to a small Brazilian study.
With a mock crop dusting exercise performed by a bright orange single engine plane flying over a sugar cane-growing region, Brazil’s aircraft manufacturer, Embraer this week unveiled what it said would be the world’s first industrially produced alcohol fueled plane.
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While economic growth had been unprecedented since the last World Summit in Rio, economic inequality had deepened and environmental degradation accelerated, said President Thabo Mbeki in Brazil.
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/ 13 September 2001
Botswana, Brazil, Thailand and Uganda were given awards for their actions against Aids.