Goodnight, everybody, i always have the feeling it's easier to face ten thousand people then being here, but I'm here
I want to start this talking about Sports, i'll talk about my life quickly, my personal experiences and try to pass some of the things i learned to you
And, to me Sport is talking about what i feel physicaly, Sport frees me, gives me some kind of physical hope, about life,
It opens your soul, and makes you feel life a kid again, when i say "Opens your soul" i mean the base of it, i remember the time where they put classical music while kids were playing
Physical activities, not just Sports, because at the time, you're open, you feel some kind of transformation, to talk about me, i will have to talk about me from the roots,
I'm always very proud of my origins, so you can know the character who is here, there is also one other character, my brother, Sócrates, who is the second tallest, they are known characters, but the other brothers are too
But where do these characters come from? I will try to sum up my father's life, and my mother's life too
My father was from a poor shantytown in Fortaleza, he had to quit school, like so many brazilian children, he quit it in the primary school stage
He learned a lot by himself, nobody knows why, he started growing up in his carreer, participating on contests, he loved to write, read, that was his way of growing up
He sold bouncing nets to survive on Belém, but he was still growing up in his carreer, then he met my mom, they got married
He then went to Pará's countryside, working as a public employee, then he had his first 4 kids, the first 3 Sócrates, Sóstenis and Sofáglis
He was like an alien, and me, Raímundo, also known as "Raí" , I'm the last one, thank god
And this character got back to Belém, without any School certificates, and there he did an rederal contest, it was the only federal contest he din't get a school certification
He was then transfered to Ribeirão Preto. where i was born, so he had 6 children and 50 years, he got back to college, wich was he's only frustration
He graduated on economy and law school, what a role model!
For not leaving you without a story, my mom, her first job was, with geography, when she was on her interview
She said she did not have any experience with it, the guy said she couldn't have the job
My mom has 91 years, and she said "How can't i have experience if you won't give me even a month" Well, at the end of the month she was hired
From these 2 characters, 6 children were born, and there is my school, as i was the 6th son i had the privilege on studying on a school where it had Sports and culture
I would like you to know, I know some percentages, I'm working a lot on this, that Brazil, the country of the Olympics 30% of the schools don't have Physed professors, and only 20% of Brazil's public schools got some space for Sports
I had the privilege of having Sócrates as my brother, and when Sports started for me i had to do two things, either facing the tension having Sócrates as my brother, to win the game, or to stop
So, that made me addicted for having strong challenges in a way, Sports and the "Sócrates challenge" made me someone addicted for challenges
Then I, passed trough my youth, you see, I'm 64 years old now
I'm already a grandpa, this is true, i have 46, then i went to the São Paulo soccer team,
On São Paulo I learned a lot of things, between these things, one of them is really big, it's uhhh.... You think that's the... Tradition... You can't change it... It was that team wich everyone wants to be in
And there, i saw that instituitins are made of people, you can always change something, you can always reinvent youself
And there was a physical trainer, called Beto, he was also from the Brazil team, he told me and the other guys "People, you have to love each other"
Since i had just arrived there, the first thing i tough was "This guy is crazy!
This competitive issue he's talking about, and a bit before our world championship, in Barcelona, 6 years after what Beto said,
I told to my team: They can play like us, the same technique, the same physical prepare, but they don't love each other like we do
We won 2 x 1, I said the same thing i didn't believe, I was like a messenger
I went to France, i learned a lot of things there too, inside and outside of Soccer, one of them is to respect, the history, the culture of a country so you can compreend people
Or else you won't have this tolerance, you won't enrich your own mind, if you enrich yourself you can contribute to this culture
And another thing i learned off the field, it was on the social side, the thing i always dreamed of was my daughter
I earned millions more than my maid, that lived on Brazil, my daughter studied on the same school, had the same doctor that my maid's daughter
For me, that's social justice, that's what i want to give to Brazil
Nowadays i have these 3 activities the "Gol de letra" foundation, the "Atletas pela Cidadania" organization and another company
And when my carreer ended, when i had 35 years, the next day, i enjoyed those weeks a lot
There was a time i "Woke up", i tough... When you're a sports man, you already know your entire year when you wake up, how much games, training it will have
And then, all of a sudden, you wake up and start to think "What will i do now?"
And... And then, you end one life so you can have a new life
And then, i realized that the most valued thing, that at the time i tough it was nothing much, but the most valued thing is that i was lucky enough
To have 20 years of experience, of working a lot with other people, knowing how to work with other people, know what they feel
Know the enviroment between people, know how to work when there are fights between people, but mainly working with other people
Here are some examples
On these... Exercises i had, off football fields, i also did a philosophy course, and here is a quick story, of something i learned
On this philosophy course, i was studying something about time, and then, i figured out i learned on Soccer, with crowd interaction, i learned a lot with middle class people
I was studying philosophy, then i went to Bahia, i took a cab to the airport, there was an event on São Paulo
In the cab, there was this time thing going on in my mind, i said: Time is passing trough so fast
He said: Life ends in a single blink. I tough "Damn this guy from Bahia know a lot of philosophy!"
Took the plane, got in São Paulo, took another cab to go to the event, me and the driver were talking about a lot of things
One of them, is that São Paulo the event would honor a lot of idols from the past, it had time as a theme too,
And when we were almost there the driver told me: Raí, we are, what we do in our lives
What the...?!?!? Another philosopher??
And this thing i learned, was that we have know to listen, it's something we will always do in our lives, learn
Here's an example, of an project my company has, that is always learning with other people, in reuning people
And it's working, the "Gol de Letra" foundation, you can see a small part of it there, it's already 12 years old, 5 thousand kids passed trough "Gol de Letra"
It's recognized by "Unesco", we're in some sort of assimilation of our methods in 6 Brazilian cities
One of our programs, Sports coach formation, will become public policy in São Paulo, all of that coming from someone who had no experience away from Sports
And also, not only Sports but education, with Sports having a more important role, on the educational instituiton
Another experience on the social area is "Atletas pela Cidadania"
"Gol de Letra" Is more active in comunities, "Atletas para Cidadania" Is more active on politics
That i also started, that reunites more than 50 high athletes, and for the first time ever
A pioneer action, that reunites 50 high class athletes that played for Brazil, from a lot of different generations, mans and womans, all the kinds of athletes, reuniting
To think about national Sports politics, of how we can, how Sports can, reach it's limit in Brazil, and not those percentages i told you
And the oportunity i had, to build this, with those other athletes, and also with my other partners, and another objective we have, is to double physical activities on Brazil
And what do we need to do this? Activism, the will to do it, and political will
I leave here, the question, that is: How do you reinvent yourself?
And to finish my quick participation here, I will... I prepared a little something, but i wanted to say, that everybody has to look for this "Reinvention"
I was obligated, and i think that everybody needs it, not only on us, but on these instituitions, big or small
And also, on our system, in my opinion, I think that, the systems also need reinvention, the objective of this event is to look for a better world, a more peaceful world
All the tries the system had, we've faced something, it has something to do with our instincts, our nature
We have our evil parts, we have a peaceful side, but we also have a violent side, a greedy side, and a generous side
Most of the times that isn't equilibrated, and, unthankfuly, the violent side, the greedy side are always have more thirst for power
So i'd ike to leave a message for this, search for reinvention, that we look for, and also reinvent our power system
So that it won't be just a blink, like that philosopher said: It's just an instant to look for things in a greedy way, But we need to deserve a better future building a story
I don't know about that, this sytem, i still don't know how to do it, but i do know, and i know a lot of you know, to make teams to look for things, and to try things
Thank you!