who is george fernandes?
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*Pondering* Try running a google search for the most info, but short answer is...\n\nA popular Defence Minister in India who resigned because of scandal...
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Iajuddin Ahmed\n\nI hope this helps!
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Francisco Alves Mendes Filho (December 15, 1944 – December 22, 1988), also known as Chico Mendes, was a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist. He fought to stop the logging of the Amazon Rainforest for the purposes of cattle ranching, and founded a national union of rubber tappers in an attempt to preserve their profession and the rainforest that it relied upon. He was murdered in 1988 by ranchers opposed to his activism.\n\n"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity" - Chico Mendes, Rubber tappers' leader\n\nHistory\nMendes grew up in a family of rubber tappers in Acre State, Brazil, and when he was of age, continued on in the family tradition. However, rubber prices had collapsed in the 1960s, and many landowners were selling their properties to the highest bidder - which in most cases, meant cattle ranchers. Rubber tappers were finding themselves pushed out of their lands.\n\nIn the 1970s, he joined a band of nonviolent activists attempting to stop the logging of the forest. They would march down logging trails, overrun forest clearance parties, disarming guards and attempting to convince the ranchers' workers not to continue. In many cases, they were successful at doing so, despite resistance from the ranchers - in 1980, Mendes' ally Wilson Pinheiro was assassinated.\n\nFounding of unions\nMendes then began to move into a more mainstream political arena. He stood successfully for the local council in Xapuri. He was a leading local member of the socialist Workers Party (PT). He advocated the idea of creating forest reserves that would be managed by traditional communities, and sustainably harvesting goods such as rubber and Brazil nuts. He saw benefit in uniting the rubber tappers in an attempt to hold their ground against the ranchers, and founded the Xapuri Rural Workers' Union, becoming its President. Over the next few years, Mendes and the union had some successes, but he decided that it would be more beneficial to unite all the Brazilian tappers in one union.\n\nWhen the first meeting of this new union, the National Council of Rubber Tappers, was held in 1985, in the capital, Brasilia, rubber tappers from all over the country came. Many had never been outside their local area before. He succeeded in educating many about the issues of deforestation, road paving, cattle ranching, and the threats to their own livelihoods. The meeting also had the effect of catching the attention of the international environmentalist movement, and highlighting their plight to a larger audience. He chose to align himself and the union with environmentalism, rather than Marxism. In October that year, English filmmaker Adrian Cowell made a documentary about Mendes.\n\nIndividual activism\nIn 1987, after being contacted by the Environmental Defense and National Wildlife Federation, Mendes flew to Washington D.C. in an attempt to convince the Inter-American Development Bank that their road project in his area would end in disaster, unless it took into consideration the preservation of the forest and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. He was successful, with the project first being postponed, and then, with his participation, renegotiated. He won two international environmental awards for this. On his return, he met with General Bayma Denys, the Minister of the Military Cabinet of the Presidency, and used the opportunity to push his ideas for reserves.\n\nIn 1988, Mendes launched a campaign to stop rancher Darly Alves da Silva from logging an area that was planned a reserve. Mendes not only managed to stop the planned deforestation and create the reserve, but also gained a warrant for Darly's arrest, for a murder committed in another state. He delivered the warrant to the federal police, but it was never acted upon.\n\nAssassination\nOn December 22, 1988, Mendes was assassinat
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Normalement oui Filipão à dit que c'était lui le selectionneur national et non pas ces messieurs de Manchester...\ncelui qui ne va pas jouer sur c'est Jorge Andrade .
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It was Socrates from Brazil. He has a brother that also played for the Brazilian nation team... "Rai".
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Artur Friedenreich\nborn July 18, 1892, São Paulo, Brazil\ndied September 6, 1969, São Paulo\n\n\nBrazilian football (soccer) player who is officially recognized by Fédération Internationale de Football as the all-time leading goal scorer with 1,329 goals. A skillful and imaginative forward, he is hailed as Brazil's first great footballer. \nNow in portuguese:\nFrienderich\n\nEm 1919, o Brasil venceu o Uruguai por 1 a 0 e se sagrou campeão sul-americano. O povo se lançou às ruas do Rio de Janeiro. Presidia os festejos, levantada como um estandarte, uma barrenta chuteira, com um cartazinho que proclamava: O glorioso pé de Friedenreich. No dia seguinte, aquela chuteira que tinha feito o gol da vitória foi parar na vitrina de uma joalheria, no centro da cidade.\nArtur Friedenreich, filho de um alemão e de uma lavadeira negra, jogou na primeira divisão durante vinte e seis anos, e nunca recebeu um centavo. Ninguém fez mais gols que ele na história do futebol. Fez mais gols que o outro grande artilheiro, Pelé, também brasileiro, que foi o maior goleador do futebol profissional. Friedenreich somou 1.329 gols. Pelé, 1.279.\n\nEste mulato de olhos verdes fundou o modo brasileiro de jogar. Romeu com os manuais ingleses: ele, ou o diabo que se metia pela planta de seu pé. Friedenreich levou ao solene estádio dos brancos a irreverência dos rapazes cor de café que se divertiam disputando uma bola de trapos nos subúrbios. Assim nasceu um estilo, aberto a fantasia, que prefere o prazer ao resultado. De Friedenreich em diante, o futebol brasileiro que é brasileiro de verdade não tem ângulos retos, do mesmo jeito que as montanhas do Rio de Janeiro e os edifícios de Oscar Niemeyer.
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Joseph S. Blatter, from Switzerland.\nHe was elected FIFA president in June 1998.
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It was Fernando Belaúnde Terry.\nHere is the Wikipedia site:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Bela%C3%BAnde_Terry
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EDSON ARANTES DE NASCIMENTO. DON'T ASK THESE TYPES OF QUESTIONS AGAIN.
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Tassos Papadopoulos\n\nGeneral info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tassos_Papadopoulos\nHis company's website\nhttp://www.papadopoulos.com.cy/
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Eusebio from Potugal, he also was the goal leader in that tournament. he best 9 in Portugal's history.
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George W. B(L?)USH.\n:-)
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Eder Aleixo de Assis, born May 25, 1957, retired in 1997.\n\nHe is now a businessman in the gas station/lubricant distribution field. He also does commentary for TV and plays senior soccer.
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I'm not exactly sure, but it might be that he hasn't necessarily had a lot of impact on CANADIAN soccer, per se, but rather just socer in general, and particularly American (NY Cosmos) and Brazilian (Santos) soccer. Therefore, the Canadian website might have folks more along the lines of Dwayne DiRosario or ... (I'm a yank, and don't know much about the soccer culture in Canada, particularly the history).
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Mario Zagallo (Brasil)\n\nFranz Beckenbauer (Germany)
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Robert Pires..becoz he got a cool hairstyle(definetly french),he wears headbands,got a trademark gotee,his boots are awesome(all puma)and finally he definetly looks better than that gay ronaldo...\n\nDont believe me? check him out in this links..you'll know
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (pron. IPA: [lu'iz i'nasiu 'lulɐ dɐ 'silvɐ]; born Luiz Inácio da Silva on October 27, 1945; popularly and affectionately known as Lula, is the 39th and current President of Brazil. Lula was elected to the post in 27 October 2002 with 61% of the votes (run-off, "second-round" election between the two most voted "first-round" candidates), and took office on January 1, 2003.\nVR