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=Alexander Hleb= Alexander Hleb was born Aliaksandr Paulavich Hleb on may 1st 1981, in the city of Minsk, Belarus. He is a Belarusian Footballer who currently resides in Samara, Russia. Hleb plays for the club Krylia Sovetov Samara in the Russian Premier League. Hleb has been mobile as far as playing with different clubs goes. He has had a roller coaster football career. His favorite position on the field is attacking Midfielder but is often shifted to the wings. This position signifies that he plays on either the right or left side of the field rather than if he were an attacking midfielder (in the middle of the field). He has sometimes been referred to as a magician or a sorceres apprentice due to his marvelous ball skill and vision. Hleb has become an excellent example of a belarusian taking pride in his nation and show casing his talent around the globe. He has become an idol to younger kids and has set the tone for Football in the country. It certainly gives the sport hope to becoming the most popular sport of the nation.

=Life at Home= As a child Alexander was raised in the city of Minsk. Hleb's father worked as a Petrol Tanker and his mother worked as a builder, which these jobs were common during the communist era(Mail online). His father was sent off to aid the Chernobyl nucular disaster, which affected hundreds of people in 1985. His father then became ill due to exposure in radiation, this affected Hleb a great deal (mail online). Vyacheslav Paulavich Hleb, whom is Alexander Hleb's younger brother, was born February 12, 1983 and also plays Football for FC Gomel.

=Early on= He began playing Football at the age of six when his father pushed him in to devoting his time and energy playing the game. He began to play football for the academy team of the club Dinamo Minsk, at the age of six. From then on, he never looked back and the sport that he least enjoyed as a child, became his life. =Career= Hleb developed playing football on the concrete pitches of Dinamo Minsk school. Alexander was not always all about Football, in fact he was more in to the sports of swimming and gymnastics as a child. At the age of 17, he signed for BATE Borisov, a Belarusian Premier League team from Borisov. Throughout his football career he played for teams such as Stuttgart from the Bundesliga in Germany, Arsenal from the English Premier League, Birmingham which is another club that plays in the English Premier League, Barcelona from the Spanish premier league or as it is refeered to as La Liga, and now for the club team Krylia Sovetov Samara, which is in the Russian Premier League. He has also been involved with the U-21 national team where he had 30 caps. He was named team captain for the main national team, where he excelled.

=Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko= Alexander Lukashenko was born on August 30, 1954 in the town of Vitebsk, Belarus. He was raised in a single-parent household by his mother and throughout his life was involved in the military. He came in to office in 1994 as president of Belarus, and currently occupies that position. It has been said that he is the only remaining "dictator" in all of Europe. His governing styles resemble that of the soviet era, not much different. He loves sports but his favorite one is Ice Hockey. The way he views sports is that all other sports besides Ice Hockey are worthless and meaningless. Therefore, Athletes other than Ice Hockey are not really recognized by the president; At least not like Ice Hockey athletes.

=Youth Football= Youth Football is growing in Belarus and one way this is happening is by the increase of exposure of the sport to the youth. The way football is being exposed is by having organized days in which kids of all ages are brought in, and are taught the game. Belarus football federation or BFF is one of the main organizer of such events. By having these such camps, this will develop and shape up the kids in to becoming great footballers, which ultimately will increase the popularity of the sport even more. Artsiom Parakhouski, is a basketball footballer who played for Radford University, in Virginia, basketball team. He is known as a great NBA basketball prospect but the reason he has become a great athlete of the game is due largely because he grew up playing football until the age of sixteen. He stopped playing the game because he grew to be 6'11 and literally outgrew the sport. Regardless of that, it is safe to say that he would not be the athlete he is today if not for the skills that he developed while playing football.

=References=

"Alexander Lukashenko Biography - mother, born, time, year, Career, Sidelights - Newsmakers Cumulation." Encyclopedia of World Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2012. .

"Belarus' kids open day proves a success â UEFA.com." The official website for European football â UEFA.com. UEFA, 28 Mar. 2012. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. <http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations

Trocchi, Bill. "Radford's Belarusian big man drawing attention of NBA scouts." SI.com. N.p., 12 Jan. 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. <http://m.si.com/news/sp/wr_cfb_sports