New Stars Are Nipping At Kaka's Heels

He's known to millions of soccer fans worldwide simply as Kaka. That's the Brazilian way — to use a one-word nickname. Quite often, the words mean nothing: Pele was never able to explain the origin of his nickname. But we know how Kaka got his name: His younger brother, Rodrigo, couldn't pronounce Ricardo properly, so in early life, Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite — a name that not one soccer fan in 10,000 would recognize — became Kaka. Later in his life, Kaka moved to Europe to play in Italy...