Kaka

Soccer Sensation: Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite
Birthday: April 22, 1982
Place of Birth: Gama, Brazil
Nickname: Kaka

     Kaka is a Brazilian soccer player who is on the Brazilian national team, as well as AC Milan. He brilliantly plays attacking midfielder for his teams, and is a great soccer player that contributes to many of the wins on both his teams. His height of 6'1'' gives him the ability to win many headers, but also dribble fiercely around many of the other teams with his speedy touches on the ball.

     Kaka began to play soccer at the age of eight, on a local club team, that really gave him the motivation to pursue soccer as his true passion in life. As a teenager, he was also interested in tennis, so choosing soccer of it was a big decision for him. At the young age of 15 he moved to Sao Paulo and finally decided that soccer was the path to take and decided to start training seriously to try and get on a big team. At the age of 18 he was in a swimming pool accident and suffered a spinal fracture that could have paralyzed him, but he luckily made a full recovery. After recovering he began to train again working endless hours every day where he worked hard, and his hard work definitely paid off, and in 2003 he joined the team Milan. His time on that team really motivated him to get better, and was rewarded. He won the Ballon d'Or and was awarded the title FIFA World Player of the Year in 2007. He was then contracted to play with Real Madrid, but recently (last year) moved back to play with Milan again, where his heart was and is.

 

 

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     Kaka is married to Caroline Celico, and has two children. There names are Luca, born in 2008, and Isabella, born in 2011. He is a religious Christian. Something new I learned was that he was a model for Armani, and used for advertising for Adidas. He was also on the cover of the FIFA game 2011.

     The most interesting fact I learned about Kaka was that he was the youngest ambassador for the UN World Food Programme. and he's pretty popular on Twitter. He was the first sportsperson to reach 10,000,000 followers on Twitter.