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A visitor uses the interactive media at the soccer museum in Sao Paulo October 23, 2008. Much of the soccer museum is interactive, using latest technology to chronicle the legendary moments of Brazilian football. The museum also traces football's transformation from an elite sport to the passion of the masses in this vast, multiracial country of 190 million people.
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In Brazil, soccer is considered an art form. So it is only fitting that the sport Brazilians call "the beautiful game" gets its own museum.
This is the land that produced football greats such as Garrincha, Zico, Romario, Ronaldo, Kaka, and the most famous of all, Pele. It is the only country to have qualified for every World Cup, and the only one to win it five times.
But until now, Brazil has never had a truly national museum honoring the sport that has become synonymous with Brazilian culture. That changed last month when the Museu do Futebol, or Football Museum, opened at Pacaembu Stadium in Sao Paulo.
Upon entering the museum, visitors are greeted in Portuguese, Spanish and English by a life-size image of Pele, who is so revered in Brazil that he is known simply as "O Rei," or "The King."
"The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. We have our own piece of art -- Pele," said Hugo Sukman of the Roberto Marinho Foundation, which helped fund the construction of the museum.
In many ways, the museum is a shrine to Pele.
One of its most impressive displays is a temporary exhibit with 140 items from Pele's personal collection, including the wooden shoeshine box he used as a boy to earn spare change and the ball from his 1,000th goal in 1969.
The museum traces football's transformation from an elite sport to the passion of the masses in this vast, multiracial country of 190 million people. From the jungles of the Amazon to the slums of cities like Rio de Janeiro and Recife, soccer is a constant that unites Brazilians from all walks of life.
"Inevitably, a museum about football is also a museum about the history of Brazil and Brazilian culture," said Leonel Kaz, the museum's curator.
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(Agencies)
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在巴西，足球一直被視為一門(mén)藝術(shù)。既然是門(mén)藝術(shù)，這項(xiàng)巴西人眼中的“美麗的運(yùn)動(dòng)”就應(yīng)該有它自己的博物館。
在巴西這片土地上，曾誕生了加林查、濟(jì)科、羅馬里奧、羅納爾多和卡卡等眾多足球巨星，還有“天王級(jí)”球星貝利。巴西是全世界唯一一個(gè)打進(jìn)歷屆“世界杯”決賽的國(guó)家，也是唯一五次奪冠的國(guó)家。
但即便如此，巴西一直都沒(méi)有為這項(xiàng)代表國(guó)家文化的“國(guó)寶級(jí)”運(yùn)動(dòng)建一個(gè)真正意義上的國(guó)家博物館。不過(guò)這一狀況在上個(gè)月終于得到了改變——巴西的“足球博物館”在圣保羅的Pacaembu體育場(chǎng)落成開(kāi)館。
走進(jìn)博物館，一個(gè)“真人貝利”大小的模型用葡萄牙語(yǔ)、西班牙語(yǔ)和英語(yǔ)三種語(yǔ)言向你問(wèn)好。貝利深受巴西人民尊敬，被稱(chēng)為“球王”。
“羅伯特·瑪林赫基金會(huì)”為博物館建設(shè)籌集資金。該基金會(huì)的雨果·薩克曼說(shuō)：“羅浮宮有蒙娜麗莎，我們也有自己的藝術(shù)珍品——貝利?！?/font>
這個(gè)博物館在很大程度上就是一個(gè)貝利紀(jì)念館。
其中一組重頭展品是貝利曾用過(guò)的140件私人物品，包括他兒時(shí)打零工用的一個(gè)木制鞋油盒以及1969年他打入的個(gè)人職業(yè)生涯中的第1000粒進(jìn)球。
博物館的展品追溯了巴西足球從貴族運(yùn)動(dòng)發(fā)展為深受1.9億國(guó)民喜愛(ài)的大眾體育項(xiàng)目的過(guò)程。從亞馬遜的叢林到里約日內(nèi)盧和累西腓的貧民窟，足球?qū)⑦@個(gè)廣闊多民族國(guó)家各階層的人凝聚在了一起。
博物館館長(zhǎng)雷奧內(nèi)爾?卡茲說(shuō)：“一個(gè)關(guān)于足球的博物館必然也是關(guān)于巴西歷史和文化的博物館?！?/font>
（英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 姍姍 編輯） |
