Translation :
"I'm here not to speak of Brazil's economic improvements, of our big social improvements. That's not why I'm going to talk. I'm going to say that today is the day where a victory has started, a victory that will last. Seven years [from] today we will be able to live up to our emotions. What we can identify in the Brazilian football squad we are going also to be able to identity among the Brazilian people: the capacity to work together. That's what the football players do in the field. They are all working for one aim. Brazilians work hard. Brazilians will work hard to meet this challenge. We have also the capacity to dream and, most of all, to be creative. So [to] bring the right to host the Cup to Brazil also means [to] awaken this emotion. We have won five times a World Cup. But this emotion is still alive, despite the fact that we won five times. Our relationship with football is very particular. I've seen people spend five years discussing a match. I've seen people discussing for five hours a match, but I've never seen someone discussing a sexual relationship for five hours. So I can tell you that the emotion created by football lasts longer than the emotion created by sexual relationships. I'm not saying that one is better is the other. I'm just saying that one lasts longer than the other. And, from now on, if FIFA decides to grant us this honor, I can reassure you, Mister President, Joseph Blatter, that you will be able to count on us, and you will see that we will be as disciplined as our football players. We will be as creative. We will work in a team as our players do. And as Brazilians we will honor our commitments."
"I'm here not to speak of Brazil's economic improvements, of our big social improvements. That's not why I'm going to talk. I'm going to say that today is the day where a victory has started, a victory that will last. Seven years [from] today we will be able to live up to our emotions. What we can identify in the Brazilian football squad we are going also to be able to identity among the Brazilian people: the capacity to work together. That's what the football players do in the field. They are all working for one aim. Brazilians work hard. Brazilians will work hard to meet this challenge. We have also the capacity to dream and, most of all, to be creative. So [to] bring the right to host the Cup to Brazil also means [to] awaken this emotion. We have won five times a World Cup. But this emotion is still alive, despite the fact that we won five times. Our relationship with football is very particular. I've seen people spend five years discussing a match. I've seen people discussing for five hours a match, but I've never seen someone discussing a sexual relationship for five hours. So I can tell you that the emotion created by football lasts longer than the emotion created by sexual relationships. I'm not saying that one is better is the other. I'm just saying that one lasts longer than the other. And, from now on, if FIFA decides to grant us this honor, I can reassure you, Mister President, Joseph Blatter, that you will be able to count on us, and you will see that we will be as disciplined as our football players. We will be as creative. We will work in a team as our players do. And as Brazilians we will honor our commitments."
20-11-2007
