Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

Great teams are not made up of many well-rounded players. Great teams are made up of a variety of players, each having their own strengths.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.