“I know what it feels like to be a promise, including a broken promise. The biggest waste in football: me. I like that word because I am obsessed with wasting my life. I am fine like this, in a frenetic waste. I enjoy this stigma.
I don’t take drugs, as they try to show. I don’t like crime, although I could have. I don’t go to clubs. I always go to the same place in my neighborhood. I drink every other day, yes. And the other days too. I drink because it is not easy to be a promise that remains in debt.
They call me Emperor. A guy who left the favela to receive the nickname Emperor in Europe. How do you explain it? I didn’t understand it until today.
The only thing I look for in Vila Cruzeiro is peace. Here I walk barefoot and without a shirt, only in shorts. I play dominoes, I sit on the sidewalk, I remember my childhood, I listen to music, I dance with my friends and I sleep in the “I just want to be at peace and remember my essence.
It’s my place. I’m truly respected here. I see my father in each of these alleys.”
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