Soccer (Football)

Midfielder

Played for Brazil in the Copa America Cup, one appearance in the 1998 World Cup

God allows things to happen in our lives, sometimes, to test us and to strengthen our faith. We have to be prepared for the difficult times. Man does not live by bread alone but by the Word of God. Life does not consist just of joys but also of trials.

I came from a poor family, never having had anything, sometimes we even struggled to have the essentials of life in my own home. Now I see this transformation, where I once had nothing, today I have everything - but the everything that I can have is not fame or money, but the joy of being alive.

It started from the moment that my mother accepted Jesus. It was through my mother and her prayers. She never forced us - me and my brothers - to go to church, but one day the Holy Spirit touched me and I came to know the same God as my mother did. And He changed my life.