April 16, 200718 yr Schumacher becomes Swiss football ambassador 16 April 2007 Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher was announced as Swiss ambassador for the European football championship. The football championship will be held in the summer of 2008 in both Switzerland and Austria. The Swiss Football Association (SFV-ASF) persuaded the world-record holding driver to join tennis player Roger Federer, former Switzerland striker Stephane Chapuisat, ex-professional skier Bernhard Russi and former Formula 1 team boss Peter Sauber. Schumacher is known for being a big football fan.
April 22, 200718 yr Germany misses Michael Schumacher. But Fisichella doesn't...After three races without the seven time world champion, German television is apparently already missing Michael Schumacher.According to free-to-air formula one broadcaster RTL, only 5.78 million spectators tuned in to Sunday's telecast of the Bahrain GP.6.5m Germans watched the Sakhir race last year, but it should be pointed out that in 2006 the Sakhir event opened the calendar.Meanwhile, while Germany may be missing Schumacher, it seems that his former rivals are not.Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella told the newspaper Gulf News that it is every driver's choice when to draw his career to a close."He is a good champion, but I do not particularly miss him on the tracks," the Italian admitted, adding his opinion to other drivers who have expressed similar comments.
April 22, 200718 yr Michael Schumacher keeping in touchMichael Schumacher may be retired but he is still an "important part" of the Ferrari team, according to Bahrain GP winner Felipe Massa.Brazilian Massa, who was the seven time world champion's final team-mate last year, revealed on Tuesday that he was again telephoned by the German after Sunday's race."He congratulated me and said I had a very good race," Massa, 25, was quoted as saying by the Terra website.Last week, Massa revealed that he also spoke with Schumacher before and after the Malaysian Grand Prix a few days prior, where he had scored pole position and then finished fifth following a couple of mistakes.He refused to say what the conversation was about."It's confidential," Felipe explained. "He's an important part of the team and it was a nice conversation."38-year-old Schumacher, currently on holiday with his family in Miami (USA), is still an unspecified 'advisor' to the Maranello based outfit.
April 24, 200718 yr Schumacher enjoying life after Formula 1BERLIN (AFP) - Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher said on Tuesday he has no regrets after retiring from Formula One last year and enjoys life more away from the track with his family.After 15 years at the top, the 38-year-old German quit the sport last year, having won five consecutive titles with Ferrari between 2000 and 2004, but is enjoying life as an adviser for his old team."I do not miss the racing driving at the moment at all," he told Bild newspaper."I live a really good life now. I am a very happy man. I have had a very nice time during the last years, but I am definitely having a better time now."I can arrange my schedule now so that I can spend the school holidays with my children. This is so nice for us. I simply have more time at home."After a stellar career, Schumacher said he enjoys watching the races, but had no desire to get back behind the wheel."I like watching the races on television," he said."I find it quite amusing now. It is interesting to see things from the other side."But I simply watch now to have fun with the family and friends."And as for a winner of this year's championship, Schumacher is true to his old team - even though they are five points behind McLaren-Mercedes."I firmly believe in Ferrari," he said, "this is the only one that counts."
April 24, 200718 yr Blair, Schumacher demand UN conference on road deathsLONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair and German motor racing legend Michael Schumacher teamed up Monday to demand a United Nations conference on tackling global road deaths.Blair said road crashes were the second-biggest cause of death for young men following HIV/AIDS, while seven-time world Formula One champion Schumacher said the international community needed to wake up to the "horrific waste of life."In 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, 1.2 million people of all ages died on the road -- including 1,000 young people per day -- and between 20 and 50 million were injured, according to the UN.To mark the start of the UN's Global Road Safety Week, Schumacher was in London to join British road safety organisations in launching a global petition calling for a UN conference, while Blair's comments came in a video statement."Every minute of every day a child is killed or seriously injured on the world's roads," said the prime minister."Road crashes are the second leading cause of death for young men after HIV/AIDS, and in some African countries more than 70 percent of those killed on the roads are young breadwinners."It is becoming clear that road injury has a serious impact on the wider development goals we are all trying to achieve. So I commend the proposal that the UN should organise a global ministerial meeting on road safety."Schumacher said: "A thousand young people under the age of 25 die every day on the roads."Road crashes kill on the scale of malaria or tuberculosis, yet the international community has not woken up to this horrific waste of life."He said he strongly supported the UN conference proposal "to tackle this preventable loss of life."The global cost of road accidents, among people of all ages, is put at 518 billion dollars a year, according to 2002 UN figures.Low- and middle-income countries accounted for 65-100 billion dollars of this, which is more than they received in annual development aid and equivalent.
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