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After Overweight Remark Brazil's Lula Tries to Make Amends with Striker Ronaldo PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 12 June 2006

Football and politics, politics and football, it's hard to find the leading thread particularly in Brazil that has won the World Cup five times and is considered among the favorites for this edition in Germany.

"Is striker Ronaldo overweight?" is more significant for Brazilians than the stock exchange or the financial turbulences of these days.
Obviously President Lula da Silva also spoke about the overweight issue which has infuriated Ronaldo and for ten days refused to talk to the press.

But the ban is over and "as Mr. Lula has said that I'm overweight, everybody is saying that the President drinks too much. It's all a big lie that I'm overweight, as must be false that he (President Lula) drinks too much", stated ironically Ronaldo.

"I guess the President is wrongly influenced by the press. His were unfortunate statements...that I'm overweight really nobody cares. They've been talking about that nonsense for the last three years", added Ronaldo.

Actually President Lula da Silva in a live teleconference surprised the coach of the Brazilian team, Carlos Alberto Parreira with the overweight question.

"Ronaldo is fine, working and training as usual" was the coach's reply.

But Ronaldo's words were not necessarily kind since they reopened an old controversy dating from May 2004 when the New York Times correspondent in Brazil wrote in one of his columns that there was "national concern" in Brazil over the President's excessive attraction towards alcoholic drinks.

(At the time Brazilian authorities forced the Times correspondent, Larry Rohter, to abandon Brazil by not renewing his visa. The correspondent was finally allowed to continue in Brazil after a letter in which he almost apologized for what he had written ).

Nevertheless it was President Lula da Silva who cooled down the discussion by sending a personal fax to Ronaldo telling him he has always been an admirer of him and was wishing the best for him in the Cup. In any case he was another Brazilian interested in the well being of the national team.

"People get that (overweight) impression of Ronaldo because of the television filming", argued coach Parreira.

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Lula o Apedeuta strikes again
written by Guest, June 12, 2006
O respeito se foi
Por Liliana Pinheiro
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Dadas as circunstâncias políticas, morais e éticas que cercam o Planalto nesses tempos, não há como condenar a virulenta reação de Ronaldo à observação do presidente Lula sobre seu peso. O atacante repetiu com todas as letras que dizem que o chefe da nação “bebe pra caramba”. Dadas as circunstâncias, também ninguém há de colocar reparo na frase de Roberto Freire (PPS) para explicar nesta sexta por que seu partido não fará aliança com Lula e seu PT: “Com ladrão, não”, disse.

Dias atrás, o senador Antonio Carlos Magalhães não foi menos objetivo ao definir o presidente: “Um grande malandro de cinismo total”. Como tem gente que não gosta quando coloco ACM nos meus textos, dado que o político bem poderia merecer comentário idêntico ao que fez, vou para outras plagas, lá no campo da extrema esquerda. “Lula está tranqüilo, com 63%, igual cavalo de 7 de Setembro, cagando e andando.” A mui cortês observação foi feita por Antonio Arruti, líder do MLST, em reunião com a militância do movimento para preparar a invasão da Câmara.

Escolhi apenas algumas das frases ditas na semana que passou para mostrar a quantas andam as manifestações públicas que envolvem a figura do presidente. Se retrocedesse um pouco mais no calendário, o resultado não seria diferente, talvez até ficasse bem pior. O desrespeito é total, não é de hoje.

Com Lula, sem dúvida, o Brasil caminhou depressa na escala da deselegância verbal. Já nem nos lembramos do tempo em que “neoliberal” era o maior dos xingamentos, e “neobobo”, a mais fulminante réplica. Lá atrás, quando o nível de debate era outro, trocas de farpas desse quilate punham todo o noticiário abaixo, mesmo o mais relevante, para que as manchetes dos jornais fossem a “tensão” na política.

Hoje, classificar um presidente da República de ladrão, malandro ou compará-lo a um quadrúpede em situação escatológica vai para pés de página, quando muito com direito a reprise nas colunas de frases. No caso de Ronaldo, será diferente, mas não porque Lula foi tomado por bebum — coisa até já ocorrida mais vezes —, e sim porque quem disse a frase foi o Fenômeno, no dia da abertura da Copo do Mundo.

Percebo também nesse episódio — não bastassem tantos outros — sinais preocupantes no horizonte político brasileiro. Uma parcela importante da sociedade, a dos formadores de opinião e de suas fontes de informação, não se dá mais ao trabalho ter deferência pela instituição da Presidência da República nem por dever cívico. Jornalistas não perdem tempo em avaliar o que diz chefe da nação sobre assuntos administrativos e políticos — até porque foram por mais de três anos impedidos de manter diálogos formais com ele —, cumprindo apenas a tarefa de anotar suas frases para o relatório diário. Há mesmo redações que já não destacam repórteres para acompanhar os monólogos de Lula, há muito sem outro sentido que não o da autopromoção.

O Fenômeno goleou? É evidente. O grito de indignação com o nível da política, que estava parado na garganta de muita gente, saiu assim que o craque entrou no campo eleitoral. Mas há que se notar que Ronaldo representa a bandeira do Brasil e nem piscou ao lembrar da fama cachaceira do presidente do mesmo país, diante de toda a imprensa internacional. Merecidamente, no caso de Lula, o respeito está em baixa. O problema vai ser administrar essa herança da esculhambação daqui para a frente. Com ele ou sem ele no comando do país.
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written by Guest, June 12, 2006
What you have is a president who is drunk and a washed out football player that both have not as yet awoken to "smell the Brazilian Coffee", which is also about the worst coffee in the world unless you use it as a filler with Kenya Double A.......
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