Finally, here we have a recording from someone who knows you very well.
(recorded): "Hey, young man. Is everything OK? Now it's OK, the national team's first goal. It's improving. Tell you the story of me asking you to play with a broken finger."
(laughs) He can't forget this story. This is Joao Paulo Sampaio, the youth training director of Palmeiras. I am forever grateful for everything he did for me, for me and my family. He is the one who opens the doors for me when I need them most. Thank God, everything is going well.
The story of that broken finger is that in the first half of the U15 Paulista Championship final, I was playing, but I felt something in the game, you know? Maybe someone stepped on me, and my fingers felt a "click".
Then I went back to the locker room: "Oh, oh, I think my finger was broken, I think my finger was broken." He said, "I don't care, go back and continue kicking." I continued kicking, but I didn't know at the time that my finger was really broken, do you know? Then, I went to another U17 final, and it hurt so much, man, don't joke.
Then I went on stage with an injection and I gave an anesthetic injection on my fingers so that it would not hurt. At that time, he kept staring at me: "Now you are going to become a man, now you are going to become a man." He also took a photo and showed it everywhere. At that time, I was a little afraid of getting an injection, and I didn’t know what it felt like.
So, it is Joao Paulo. I am very grateful to him and thank God for bringing him into my life. He was an amazing man, and he helped me a lot from the beginning to Palmeiras until the last day of my departure. So, Joao Paulo, give you a hug, brother. We are with us.