The Angolan Minister of Youth and Sports, Jose Marcos Barrica, is since Sunday morning in Brazilia, for a week-long working visit at the invitation of his Brazilian counterpart, Agnelo Queiroz, in the ambit of the relationship between Angola and Brazil.

Marcos Barrica will hold contacts with his Brazilian colleague and also with other Government officials and will visit sporting facilities, aiming the improvement of bilateral cooperation in the field of sports.

Angola and Brazil share a practical experience in sporting relationship, mainly at football level. Brazilian technicians coach Angolan teams and Brazil is preferential place for trainship of Angolan soccer teams.

(From Angola Press, January 16, 2005)
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