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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sakuraguy" data-source="post: 1709519" data-attributes="member: 6441">AwardsMichael Schumacher has won the coveted Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award in 2002 and 2004, for his outstanding performance in the 2001 and 2003 seasons respectively. He joins a select group of sports personalities to win the award - golfer Tiger Woods, cyclist Lance Armstrong and tennis player Roger Federer. In its 7-year history, no other sportsman has been nominated more times than Schumacher, who also received nominations for the 2001, 2003 and 2005 awards.Personal lifeSchumacher married Corinna Betsch in August 1995. They have two children together, daughter Gina-Maria (b. 1997) and son Mick (b. 1999), and reside in Vufflens-le-Château, Switzerland, near Lake Geneva. Schumacher is very protective of his private life and takes every effort to keep his family out of the spotlight. Michael Schumacher's younger brother Ralf, six years his junior, is also an F1 driver.Schumacher's off-track interests include playing football (soccer) (actively in FC Echichens), watching films, karaoke, playing tennis, swimming, and skiing. .CharityIn 2005, Schumacher donated US$10 million to charity for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in a charity show on the German television network ZDF.[46] It was later announced that a bodyguard for Schumacher, Burkhard Cramer, and his two sons, had died while on holiday in Phuket, Thailand[47]. In fact, his donation surpassed that of any other sportsperson, most sports leagues, many worldwide corporations and even some countries.Combining his hobby of football with charity, Schumacher has participated in several friendly games together with other Formula One drivers to raise money for charity.Road safety awarenessIn 1997, the FIA tasked Schumacher to promote road safety as part of his punishment conditions for the incident in Jerez. Although initially short term, he is still an active advocate of road safety, and an iconic supporter of the FIA's initiatives to promote road safety around the world. Along with Max Mosley, he was a keynote speaker at the launch and official signing of the European Road Safety Charter in Dublin on 6 April 2004.He also participated in the global launch of the FIA's Think Before You Drive campaign at the 2005 Spanish Grand Prix along with then Ferrari team-mate Rubens Barrichello.In 2005 Schumacher agreed to join the high level Commission for Global Road Safety, headed by former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, as the representative for Germany. The Commission’s report, Make Roads Safe, published in June 2006, argued for urgent international action to tackle the 1 million annual road deaths in developing countries around the world. Schumacher has subsequently supported the Make Roads Safe campaign, led by the FIA Foundation, which is calling on G8 countries and the UN to recognise global road deaths as a major global health issue on the scale of Malaria and TB.Special ambassador to UNESCOSchumacher is a special ambassador to UNESCO and has donated US$3 million to the organization. He has funded projects for the construction of a school in Senegal, a clinic in Sarajevo and a centre for street children in Peru. He has even taken the rare step of visiting Sarajevo to see how his funding has benefited child victims of war. For his contribution, he was named a UNESCO Champion For Sport by its Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura in 2002.Film cameosIn early March 2006, the Spanish press reported that Michael Schumacher will play a small role in the upcoming movie Asterix at the Olympic Games, together with football star David Beckham and retired player Zinedine Zidane.[53]Michael Schumacher himself delivered a vocal performance in Disney-Pixar's animated feature film Cars. His character in the film, a trademark Rosso Corsa Ferrari F430 who comes to Luigi's Casa della Tires (which makes Luigi himself and his friend Guido faint from joy), was named after him.[54]TriviaIn a poll of over 10,000 BBC readers and motorsport fans, Schumacher was voted the "Greatest Ever Grand Prix Driver", receiving 64% of the total votes; Ayrton Senna was second, with 26%; Juan Fangio was a distant third, at 4%. The poll was given in 2003, at which point Schumacher had won 6 of his current 7 World Championships. Contemporary sports star Tiger Woods considers Schumacher the greatest sportsman in the world. He has stated that of all his years racing, the opponent he respected most was Mika Hakkinen.He has never had a winless year in Formula One. (with the exception of his debut year 1991, when he attended only 6 races)In the 2005 Forbes celebrity 100, he was ranked at seventeenth.He is the first German racing driver to win the F1 world championship under the German flag. He does not much care for the celebrity spotlight, rather preferring a simple life.He has received several nicknames throughout with his career, including the "Red Baron", "Schuey" and "Schumi". Spa is Schumacher's favorite track. It was also the first Formula One track he competed on, as well the first he won. It is considered the most difficult and demanding track in the World Championship.Schumacher loves the outdoors, and his favorite color is green. He also loves animals, and adopted a stray dog he once found in Brazil.After retirement, he has been entertaining the notion of becoming a farmer.He still drives karts for entertainment.Deutsche Vermögensberatung paid him US$8 million over three years for wearing a four-inch (10 cm) advertisement on his post-race hat. Schumacher owns a new Dassault Falcon jet, a Dassault 2000EX registration HB-JEG. In Germany, he is sometimes called "Schwiegermutters Liebling" (mother in law's favourite), because he is seen as a devoted family man and has never been involved in any personal scandals.</blockquote>

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