From today's Folha de S. Paolo, a photo from this weekend's World Club Championship match: English shirt on a Brazilian footballer playing in Japan for an Italian team against Argentinean opposition.
Today, Kaká was named World Footballer of the Year. His acceptance speech, also in English:
Tonight is really special for me. When I was young, I dreamed of playing for Sao Paulo and playing just one game for the national team. That was it, but the Bible says God gives us more than we ask for and that is what has happened in my life.For some reason I get a lot more excited (or is it I cringe less?) about players' for-the-camera professions of faith when they aren't American. Also, oddly, when you're wearing the on your shirt you by definition carry it close to you whether you win or lose — which is a pretty strong (if invisible) answer to the protest that, hey, wait a minute, Jesus isn't just (or even firstly) for Winners.
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