10 greatest Brazilian SPORTSMEN
Carvalho
> 1. Pele
I agree.
> 2. Ayrton Senna
Agreed.
> 3. Ricardo Prado
?? Not even a gold medallist.
> 4. Aurelio Miguel
??C'mon!!
> 5. Garrinhcha
Agreed.
> 6. Emerson Fittipaldi
Not hotter than Nelson Piquet.
> 7. Zico
Maybe.
> 8. Joaquim Cruz
Agreed.
> 9. Os irmaos Grael
read comment below
> 10. Gustavo Kuerten
why not Maria Esther Bueno? 5 wimbledon >> 1 roland garros
where is hortencia?
where are basketballers? We won 2 World championships of basketball.
Oscar Schmidt???
Ademar Ferreira da Silva and Joao do Pulo are Brazil's best track and
field athletes ever.
The Grael brothers never won a Gold medal.
Robert Scheidt did, and he is likely to do it again.
Carvalho
> On 2 Nov 1998 01:41:40 GMT, v-g...@students.uiuc.edu (vijaya reddy
> gosula) spoke thusly:
> >10. Gustavo Kuerten
> Ugh, not Kuerten. He may be as fine a tennis player as you want,
> but after his Davis Cup "performances" I'd say that he isn't much of
> a sportsman.
Er... As a Spaniard, I guess you cannot complain about Guga's
performance in the Davis Cup. After all, every other time he played in
Spain, Spanish fans made him pay for that. Unless you think that
Spaniard players are not sportsmen too...
vijaya reddy gosula
>vijaya reddy gosula wrote:
Irineu,
Eu sabia que nao devia nem ter tentado fazer isso. Era obvio que eu
ira esqeucer/omitir nomes importantes do esporte nacional. Hortencia,
Oscar, a geracao de Prata do Volei, as meinas do Volei agora, etc.
Felizmente o Brasil ate que e' bom em esportes de equipe. Ja ia
esquecendo Paula...entao, todos os seus comentarios sao bem aceitos.
>> 1. Pele
>I agree.
>> 2. Ayrton Senna
>Agreed.
>> 5. Garrinhcha
>Agreed.
>> 6. Emerson Fittipaldi
>> 7. Zico
>Maybe.
>> 8. Joaquim Cruz
>Agreed.
>> 9. Os irmaos Grael
>read comment below
>> 10. Gustavo Kuerten
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Vijay Gosula
e-mail: v-g...@students.uiuc.edu
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Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Max Attar Feingold
spoke thusly:
>> Ugh, not Kuerten. He may be as fine a tennis player as you want,
>> but after his Davis Cup "performances" I'd say that he isn't much of
>> a sportsman.
>
>Er... As a Spaniard, I guess you cannot complain about Guga's
>performance in the Davis Cup. After all, every other time he played in
>Spain, Spanish fans made him pay for that. Unless you think that
>Spaniard players are not sportsmen too...
Irineu, there was and is a fundamental difference between Kuerten's
behavior and Corretja and Moya's. Neither group is directly
responsible for the behavior of their fans, but Kuerten aided and
abetted his torcida's embarrassing behavior, whereas the Spaniards
didn't. (I even remember some quotes from Alex and Carles at the
Godo asking the crowd to take it easy on Guga.)
I'm sure Kuerten is a nice guy in the end, but the Davis Cup
situation overwhelmed him and he did the easy thing, which was to go
along with the crowd. It would have taken a better sportsman than
he to do otherwise.
Max Attar Feingold
maf6-at-cornell.edu
http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Info/People/mfeingol/
"This girl was basically awed by me intellectually,
and I suppose that eventually moved to the physical
rather quickly" - a modest friend
Benny
> From : Max Attar Feingold <maf6@*ilovespam*cornell.edu> Cornell
>I'm sure Kuerten is a nice guy in the end, but the Davis Cup
>situation overwhelmed him and he did the easy thing, which was to go
>along with the crowd. It would have taken a better sportsman than
>he to do otherwise.
I don't know what incident this is regarding but Davis Cup matches are
always heated. Remember when Muster walked out of a Davis Cup match a
few years ago?
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Max Attar Feingold
spoke thusly:
>>I'm sure Kuerten is a nice guy in the end, but the Davis Cup
>>situation overwhelmed him and he did the easy thing, which was to go
>>along with the crowd. It would have taken a better sportsman than
>>he to do otherwise.
>
>I don't know what incident this is regarding but Davis Cup matches are
>always heated. Remember when Muster walked out of a Davis Cup match a
>few years ago?
Benny, that was the same Brasilian torcida that I'm talking about.
I don't recall if Guga was playing at that time, however.