Brazilians Sweep World Player of the Year Awards
FIFA today named Kaka and Marta as its male and female World Players of the Year.
The U.S. Women's National Team, destroyed by Brazil at the World Cup, knows all about Marta.
Here are some highlights of Kaka's exploits:
Columnist Nick Green has written 100 Percent Soccer
since 2005. A
native of England, he began writing about soccer in
the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat
in the stands for one in
the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home
Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas
USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer.
Married to a long-suffering soccer widow, he has a cat
named Pele.