Our Heroes of Sport! - By Thomás Crespo - class 701

Murilo Endres

·        Murilo Endres is a Brazilian volleyball player;

·        In 2000, he won the runner-up South American youth;

·        He was a junior world champion in 2001.  It was the group that won the World League in 2004 and 2005;

·        Also, in 2005, he won a gold medal in the Champions League.

He was born on May 3, 1981.
City - Passo Fundo (RS)
Weight: 76 kg  Height: 1.90 m

Julio Cesar Soares de Espindola

·       Julio Cesar Soares de Espindola, better known as Julius is a Brazilian footballer who acts as a goalkeeper;

·       Currently, plays for “Internazionale”.He was voted the best goalkeeper in the world.

He was born on September 3, 1979.
City - Duque de Caxias (RJ)
Height 1.86 m    Weight 79 kg

A Brazilian Hero : 


Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born 21 March 1980 in Porto Alegre), commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club A.C. Milan and the Brazilian national team. He is a free-kick specialist and has exceptional dribbling ability.
Ronaldinho, Portuguese for "Little Ronaldo," is known in Brazil by the nickname "Gaúcho," in order to distinguish him from Ronaldo, who was already called "Ronaldinho" in Brazil. Ronaldo simply went by his first name upon his move to Europe, thereby allowing Ronaldinho to drop the "Gaúcho" and remain simply as Ronaldinho.
Prior to his move to Milan, he played for Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona, with whom he won his first Champions League in 2006 and he won the Ballon d'Or in 2005. He became a Spanish citizen in January 2007.

An American Hero :
  
  
   LeBron Raymone James born December 30, 1984 is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "King James", he was a three-time "Mr. Basketball" of Ohio in high school, and was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar while a sophomore at St. Vincent – St. Mary High School.

By Rogério Britto and André Branco The True Heroes Of Sport Class: 702

 

César Cielo, a swimming recordist

●César was born with the name César Augusto Cielo Filho in “Santa Bárbara d'Oeste”, Brazil, on January 10th, 1987;

●He obtained two Olympic medals and two World Campionships gold medals in one year;

●In the same year of these four medals he broke two world records, 100 meter and 50 meter freestyle;

●A lot of people say he is the most successful Brazilian swimmer in history.

Marcelinho

●Marcelo was born with the name Marcelo Magalhães Machado in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 12th, 1975;

●He is a Pan American three-time-champion;

●He was voted most valuable player of the FIBA Americas Championship 2005;

●He is the captain of the Brazilian Basketball Team.

Guga

●Guga was born with the name Gustavo Kuerten in Florianopolis, Brazil, on September 10th, 1975;

●He was the best Brazilian tennis player for 9 years;

●He made one of the fastest tennis serve of the world.

Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna da Silva was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on March 21th,1960;

He was the world champion for three times;

He was considered the best pilot in wet tracks;

He died in a race on May 1st, 1994.

Pelé, “the soccer king”

 

●Pelé was born with the name Edson Arantes do Nascimento in “Três Corações”, Brazil, on October 23th, 1940;

●When Pelé was ten, he began to work, cleaning people's shoes in the street;

●He got 4 goals in his first match for Santos Football Club;

●He is the only soccer player to win three World Cups;

●In 1967 there was a war in Nigeria but the war stopped for 48 hours for everybody to watch Pelé playing soccer.