The former striker of Cagliari and Fiorentina tells himself: “In my house in Brazil he made one meal a day, then I went to Europe and I met the snow: I had never seen it, I thought it was sugar. Brazil wanted me but I would not have played and chose Belgium, then my father …”
Growing with a single meal a day and sleep on an hammock in a house that did not even repair from the rain. Luis Airton Oliveira Barroso, for the most lulu, has known hunger and difficulties since childhood. The ball was his escape and hope to guarantee a better future for the family. He moved away from everything to 16 years old: from Brazil he arrived in Belgium, without knowing the language, cold and with few certainties. In Italy he reached the consecration, he marked so much and he never missed the desire to fight. That of those who have been able to transform the difficulties into force.