* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

A Brazilian navy AH-11A Super Lynx Mk-21A helicopter prepares to drop a boarding team by fast rope during a visit, board, search and seizure ( VBSS ) exercise.

The team won two more Formula One drivers ' championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet.

* Ceres Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football team from the city of Rio de Janeiro

The five stars are also in the logo of the Brazilian football team Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and the Brazilian coat of arms ; it is mentioned in the Brazilian national anthem, and even featured as the name of the currency ( the cruzeiro from 1942 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1994.

Roosevelt's crew consisted of his 24-year-old son Kermit, Colonel Rondon, a naturalist, George K. Cherrie, sent by the American Museum of Natural History, Brazilian Lieutenant Joao Lyra, team physician Dr. José Antonio Cajazeira, and 16 skilled paddlers and porters ( called camaradas in Portuguese ).

This serve was invented and employed almost exclusively by the Brazilian team in the early 1980s and is now considered outdated.

* Roma Esporte Apucarana, a Brazilian football team

In defeating Brazil, 1 – 0 on 1 July 2006, Barthez, having made only one save in the game, became the first keeper to blank the Brazilian team in consecutive World Cup finals matches, the first being the 1998 final ( 3 – 0 ).

* Red Bull Brasil – a football team currently playing in the Brazilian Campeonato Paulista Série A2 based in Campinas, Brazil

The character known as " Mancha Verde " ( Portuguese for " Green Stain ") is used as a symbol by various Brazilian associations of soccer fans, or torcidas organizadas, in order to feature their team colors.

* Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, a Brazilian football team

The Brazil national football team ( in Portuguese: Seleção Brasileira ) represents Brazil in international men's football Brazil is made by the Brazilian Football Confederation ( CBF ), the governing body for football in Brazil.

For the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, the Brazilian team was then almost completely renovated, so as to forget the Maracanã defeat, but still had a group of good players, including Nílton Santos, Djalma Santos, and Didi.

All the major Brazilian clubs wanted their players included in the Brazilian team, to give them more exposure.

The Brazilian team were forced to settle for the third place match, where they defeated Italy by 2 – 1.

The groupings appeared at first glance to favor Brazilian team ; their adversaries would be Turkey, China and Costa Rica.

The Brazilian team won the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa.

The Brazilian Olympic team is often coached by the current national team coach, such as Mario Zagallo in 1996 and Dunga in 2008.

The Brazilian national team has many nicknames and are known in different parts of the world by various nicknames.

The Brazilian Integralists led by Plínio Salgado, claimed as many as 200, 000 members although following coup attempts it faced a crackdown from the Estado Novo of Getúlio Vargas in 1937.

Brazilian forces led the United Nations peacekeeping troops in Haiti composed of United States, France, Canada, and Chile deployments.

The worldwide spread of judo has led to the development of a number of offshoots such as Sambo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Unlike the Spanish colonies, the Brazilian independence came as a indirect consequence of the Napolionioc Invasions to Portugal-French invasion under General Junot led to the capture of Lisbon on 8 December 1807.

Later bandleaders pioneered the performance of various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles with the traditional big band instrumentation, and big bands led by arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane ( on the album Ascension from 1965 ) and electric bassist Jaco Pastorius introduced cool jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, respectively, to the big band domain.

The WSF was sponsored, in part, by the Porto Alegre government, led by the Brazilian Worker's Party ( PT ).

France was led by a rejuvenated Zinédine Zidane and by a strong defence which kept the Brazilian strikers under check for the duration of the game.

At the Brazilian GP, Montoya led home McLaren's first 1-2 result in years, ahead of newly crowned world champion Fernando Alonso in third.

In the 1960s, the standard of quality of Palmeiras play – led by the one who would come to symbolize this period of soccer excellence, Ademir de Guia – led the Palestra Italia team to be called the " Academy " of Brazilian football.

In 1986, manager Pepe led the club to its second Brazilian Championship title, defeating Guarani in a penalty shoot-out.

Muricy Ramalho was signed up as the new coach, having led Internacional to the runners-up position in the 2005 Brazilian Championship.

Somewhat rooted in the Portuguese integralist tradition, the Brazilian integralist movement led by Plínio Salgado-Ação Integralista Brasileira-became the largest political party ever found in Brazil, with over a million members, even though it lasted less than six years as a legal recognized organization.

Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the Brazilian group in 1996.

He also faced other obstacles ; the unsuccessful Cisplatine War against the neighboring United Provinces of South America led to the secession of a Brazilian province ( later to become Uruguay ) in 1828.

The state of São Paulo, with its relatively large capital-base, large immigrant population from Southern and Eastern Europe, and wealth of natural resources, led the trend, eclipsing Rio de Janeiro as center of Brazilian industry.

The Brazilian delegation was led by the statesman Ruy Barbosa, whose contribution was essential for the defense of the principle of legal equality of nations.

These were the government led by Lula's Workers ' Party in Brazil which also involves the Brazilian Republican Party and the Liberal Party, and the 1964 coalition between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party ( LSSP ) in Ceylon.

The company faced its worst crisis in 2004, which led to the suspension of service to many Brazilian cities and the cancellation of flights.

Although Brazil was technically neutral, this increasing cooperation with the Allies led the Brazilian government to announce at the Pan American States Conference in Rio on 28 January 1942 its decision to sever diplomatic relations with Germany, Japan, and Italy.

The sinkings were the main reason that led the Brazilian government to declare war against the Axis.

Berlin Radio pronouncements led to increasing nervousness among the Brazilian population.

A revolutionary forerunner of Che Guevara, Prestes led the legendary but futile " Long March " through the rural Brazilian interior following his participation in the failed 1922 tenente rebellion against the coffee oligarchs.

This confluence of faiths during the Portuguese colonization of Brazil led to the development of a diverse array of syncretistic practices within the overarching umbrella of Brazilian Roman Catholicism, characterized by traditional Portuguese festivities.