Word: brazile
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...contemporary art world that celebrates expressions of multiculturalism, Fukuda's paintings and sculptures, all abstract, are prized for uniting the aesthetics of south and east. The synthesis comes naturally for him. The grandson of Japanese immigrants, part of a wave of 190,000 people who moved to Brazil during the first four decades of the 20th century, Fukuda, 58, was born in coffee country in Sao Paulo State, where his father had a factory that made fans. Fukuda, who has no formal art training, began his apprenticeship by painting Japanese landscapes on the fans after he came home from school...
...best? "They will never forget that great player," he said. "If you stop when you are playing poorly, people will remember that bad player." That's why I retired--for the first time--in 1974 after winning the 1970 World Cup for the third time with Brazil. I was 34 years...
Then all the European teams--Real Madrid, Milan, Benefica and others--came to me with proposals to start playing again. But I thought that would be like returning to the field in Brazil. Another proposal came from the presidents of Warner Brothers and Warner Records [now, like TIME, part of AOL Time Warner] in the States: "We're trying to get soccer going in the U.S., and we're going to start a big team, the New York Cosmos. Why don't you come and play with us?" That, I thought, would be a new experience. The Cosmos were giving...
Another thing I learned is to invest in real estate. Around the time I went to the U.S., I had invested in cattle in Brazil. The cattle died. With land, apartments, houses, no one can take it away. So today, my investment base is real estate...
...there have been offers to coach the Brazilian national team, but there's no way I can stand on the side of the field. One of the biggest disappointments I ever had in sport was when I was a commentator for TV Globo during the 1998 World Cup, and Brazil lost. I had to be honest: Brazil was not playing well...