Once a favorite of Old Trafford, but now unrecognizable: ‘I lived in the stadium for years…’

With the ‘red devils’ he won four English league titles, the Champions League, two League Cups, the Club World Championship and two English Super Cups and played almost 200 games with nine goals and 20 assists. He played eight times for the Brazilian national team.

He left United at the beginning of 2015 and returned to Brazil where he played for International i Coritibuand he ended his career in 2019 in Turkey Adani Demirspor. Today he is 38 years old, and many people hardly recognize him because he has changed a lot physically. But the real story was not on the field. On Ferdinand’s podcast, Anderson revealed where he actually comes from.

– I had nothing. I came from a favela, a very bad place. I left home when I was only 11 to 12 years old and went to the stadium to live Grammy for which I played in the youth categories at the time. Ž I lived in the stadium for two years. The club took me in, gave me money and fed me. Gremio was like a father to me. I lost my father when I was ten years old, and my mother did not take care of me like a son. That’s why I had to leave. “Fifteen of us lived in one small room,” he said.

– I saw football as the only way out and thank God that I succeeded – he concluded.

In 2004, Anderson entered the first team of the Grammys, and moreć In 2006, the club sold him to Porto for eight million euros, from where Ferguson brought him to Manchester. He also played for the Brazilian national team, for which he played eight games.