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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2302)	7/1/2002 10:05:08 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5130

>Didn't the athletes perform nude back in the original Olympics? -g- Yeah, they were totally pure-g-, if that ever came back I can see a few sponsors already lining up...Spartan, suntan lotion company, Viagra, etc... On another note, while a few Brazilians decided to promote Tshirts in English saying "I belong to Jesus" the ever gentleman Cafu proclaims "I belong to Jardim Irene", is that a classy gesture or what? Poor Sao Paulo neighborhood touched by Cafu's gesture July 1, 2002 Sao Paulo, Jul 1 (EFE).- Brazil's fifth World Cup victory gave residents of Jardim Irene, a poor working class neighborhood in Sao Paulo, an additional thrill. Shortly before climbing on the stand in Yokohama's soccer stadium to accept the World Cup trophy on Sunday, 32-year-old Brazilian national team captain Marcos Evangelista de Moraes, known as "Cafu," who was born and raised in the neighborhood, wrote on his jersey "100% Jardim Irene," in tribute to his former neighbors. Cafu's gesture touched the residents of Jardim Irene, one of Sao Paulo's most violent neighborhoods, and they are now anxiously awaiting the soccer idol's return and hoping that the exposure will bring increased government attention to their many problems. "We never imagined that in such a faraway place, Cafu was going to remember us and that the world was going to hear about Jardim Irene," a neighborhood resident told Globo television. Jardim Irene is part of the Capao Redondo district, one of Sao Paulo's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. The murder rate in the zone is 76.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. Although Cafu's family moved away years ago to an upscale Sao Paulo neighborhood, the starting defender for Italy's Roma soccer team visits Jardim Irene whenever he comes home to Brazil, and he has started a foundation that bears his name to help his former neighbors. Marcos, as many of his old friends still call him, has also purchased a lot where he plans to build a sports complex so that the neighborhood children and youths will have a safe place to congregate and not fall prey to drugs and violence. "In the name of several friends that remain and many that already have left, I send him a hug and hope he'll never forget us," a childhood friend nicknamed "Nene" (Baby), who works for the Cafu Foundation, said.