4to I "C" - Diego Blaer, Ari Gullerian, Alejandro Otero - Std. bk - pg. 93

Lulinha, who was Kardec best friend, was playing for the Santos Football Club (S.F.C.) in Brazil. He had met his best friend when they were playing in S.F.C. and they saw each other almost all the day. But one day Kardec received an offer from his favorite club, Vasco Da Gama. He accepted the offer and left his best friend and his club.

Although Kardec went away from his ex-club he never abandoned his best friend. Lulinha and Kardec always continued to have an excellent friendship; when they were not playing football they were together doing something.

The year after Kardec left S.F.C. Lulinha and Kardec played together for Brazil on the Sub20 World Cup. That championship made the closeness between the two friends stronger. The entire world was talking about those two young players that were playing excellently together for Brazil; of course Brazil won that Cup.

When Lulinha went back to Brazil he received a horrible and at the same time excellent piece of news… The F.C. Manchester United wanted that Lulinha joined them. He couldn’t reject that offer so the day before he signed for the British club he went to Kardec’s house and said to him: - ‘I hope to see you playing for an important club my friend, if not, you will always be in my hearth as the best friend I have ever had’- And that was the last time he ever saw him.