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N. Ravi
Brasilia : Brazil is an emerging economy with many strengths, among them vast natural resources and a strong technological base. Yet that football remains its strongest diplomatic weapon was apparent at the India-Brazil-South Africa summit being held here. It was at the instance of Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and president of the All India Football Federation Priyaranjan Dasmunsi that a rather hesitant Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised with the Brazilian President Lula the possibility of Brazil sending football coaches to train Indian players. It was not a matter usually discussed between governments, the Prime Minister had said, even while making it clear that he will take up the matter anyway with the Brazilian President. When he did make the request at their bilateral talks on Tuesday, Mr. Lula came out with an immediate promise to send some football coaches to India. At the IBSA summit on Wednesday, it was the turn of South African businessman Patrice Motsepe, who is the President of Business Unity of South Africa, the apex business organisation, to bring up football in his speech at the opening session. The best football team in South Africa was named the Brazilians, the name obviously inspired by the great football power. Its success was due to the coach provided by Brazil, he said, and hoped it would improve greatly between now and 2010. Taking up the issue of the South African team, the Brazilian President was quick to point out that Mr. Motsepe described it as the best team only because he in fact owned the team. "It is his subjective estimation," Mr. Lula said, relieving the heaviness in a session where weighty issues of complementarities and strengths of the three economies were being expounded upon.
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