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00:00 When Marcos Cafu was born, in June 1970,
00:04 the goalkeeper of the Brazilian World Cup in Mexico was called Leão.
00:09 Exactly, Leão.
00:11 Emerson Leão.
00:13 One of the best Brazilian goalkeepers ever.
00:16 Leão played with his lightness,
00:19 both with the Palmeiras shirt
00:21 and with the Corinthians one,
00:23 the two arch-rivals teams of São Paulo.
00:26 It wasn't easy, but he did it.
00:29 Emerson Leão played with the Brazilian Seleção shirt
00:33 from 1970 to 1986.
00:37 A São Paulo fan like him,
00:39 who knows how many times Marcos Cafu smiled
00:42 thinking about his story and rereading it.
00:45 Because the smile has always been
00:48 the conjunction ring of Cafu to the football.
00:51 The football thought, the spoken and above all the played.
00:56 The ring always smiled,
00:59 even when he was on the pitch,
01:01 or with the opponents or the referee.
01:03 The smile as a landscape of the soul,
01:05 as a natural outline of his eyes.
01:07 The smile, however it is and however it goes.
01:10 And the more contagious it is, the better.
01:12 The smile doesn't stain, doesn't contaminate.
01:16 The smile illuminates, the smile enriches.
01:20 Certainly a contagious witness,
01:23 the one who has been with Marcos Cafu for years,
01:26 is another Leão.
01:28 He's not the goalkeeper, but the forward.
01:30 He doesn't fly from one pole to the other of a goal,
01:33 but from one side to the other of the pitch.
01:35 His name is not Emerson, but Rafa.
01:38 He is a Portuguese Leão, musical, Milanese,
01:41 who smiles even when he misses a goal.
01:43 Not out of indifference, but because he is already
01:45 tasting when the tram of the goal called Desiderio
01:48 will pass again next time.
01:52 The smile was created for beautiful things
01:54 and Leão loves beautiful goals.
01:56 He would like to do more and more.
01:58 But with the number 10 jersey of Milan,
01:59 Rafa does above all assists, plays.
02:02 He feels complete.
02:03 Today's football must not be just statistics,
02:06 figures, numerical aridity.
02:09 It's okay if it ends up being strange
02:12 to the natural bearers of a smile,
02:14 if it is conceived like that.
02:16 Football is magic, joy.
02:18 Free and smiling spirits struggle to accept
02:21 that people think only of numbers.
02:23 If you play a bad game, but then the signs say
02:26 "Wow, Leão" it's not like that.
02:28 Because people have to have fun,
02:30 and he has to have fun too.
02:31 In São Paulo, Brazil, for Cafu,
02:33 and in the neighborhood 9 km from Almada, in Portugal,
02:37 it's the same thing.
02:38 Football lived as beauty in the true sense of the word.
02:41 Because if it becomes an obsession,
02:43 it adds up to those that are already obsessions,
02:46 at home, on the road, to carry on every day.
02:49 Football, on the other hand, must be beauty
02:52 in the solidarity and philosophy of life for Cafu,
02:55 as well as in fashion, music and love for Leão.
02:58 The smiling crowd that likes children.
03:01 Maybe because he plays like the little ones,
03:03 those who go to the field because they want to have fun.
03:06 I've always wanted to play this kind of game.
03:09 I'm a team player who wants to make assists, goals.
03:14 I've played a lot of different games.
03:17 Sometimes, in some games, I'm a little selfish.
03:21 Maybe my numbers were different,
03:24 but in my opinion, football is this.
03:26 The joy of playing dribbling, assists, goals,
03:32 which, in my opinion, is more Rafa's game.
03:35 Everyone says that Leão is trendy,
03:37 that he is as he should be young today.
03:40 It is thought to be glamorous, connected.
03:42 It is defined in perfect harmony with the times.
03:46 It will be.
03:47 The feeling, on the other hand,
03:49 is that Rafa's values are new, particular, original,
03:54 to put it all in contrast.
03:57 When someone like him, rich and famous,
04:00 tells you that status is not so important,
04:03 it is better to reflect on it.
04:05 When someone like him, rich and famous,
04:07 tells you that it is not important to clench your teeth
04:10 to accumulate more and more followers on social media,
04:13 it is better to reflect on it, it is better to think about it.
04:16 Leão smile is Leão philosophy,
04:18 that is, when you can eat and walk,
04:21 maybe you have someone who loves you,
04:23 it is right to smile.
04:24 A sentence that knows good,
04:26 that does not speak of millions of euros
04:28 and tons of gold to fit into the tables.
04:31 Football for him is pure joy.
04:33 Social media are dangerous and he does not like them.
04:36 No rush, thousands, millions of likes.
04:40 Better, much better, to think about who was close to you
04:43 when it was essential, who made you grow.
04:46 First, father Antonio and the family,
04:48 then football, sport and Milan.
04:51 Even recognition, deep down, is like a smile.
04:54 Even recognition can be contagious.
04:56 Leão was young in Milan
04:58 and after several years he can speak to the new young people,
05:01 the talents of the following years at his time of entry,
05:04 those who bounce today from the spring team to the first team.
05:08 I arrived first, young to the first team.
05:12 The older ones always helped me.
05:15 Now I am in a position to help the younger ones,
05:20 even if I am young too, 24 years old.
05:24 But if I talk to the young ones,
05:26 because young people have something different.
05:28 Those who went to the first team,
05:30 in my opinion, have the level of Milan players,
05:34 so I always try to help them.
05:36 Another lap, another striker, another Scudetto.
05:39 The smile, accompanied by many beautiful memories of Oliver Birhoff,
05:44 never loses its tone or color over the years.
05:48 If I think about Milan, I get a lot of smiles
05:52 and also some shivers.
05:55 The smile and shiver, certainly, for the last day
06:00 in the season we won the Scudetto,
06:03 we passed through Lazio,
06:08 and the whole stadium was exalted.
06:11 It was beautiful, really beautiful.
06:14 The smile, I must say, like many players, I think,
06:20 is the locker room.
06:22 The locker room is, especially for me,
06:24 my lunch table, together with Albertini,
06:29 Maldini, Costa Curta, Rossi and Bovan.
06:33 Every day there were laughs,
06:36 stupid things that are particular for a football team.
06:41 This smile is among many that I have in memory of Milan.
06:49 The smile is not a domain that you buy on the web.
06:52 The smile is free land of conquest
06:54 for those who have the luck and the desire to be able to give it away.
06:57 On a football pitch there are the pressures,
07:00 the tensions, the obsession with the result.
07:02 It is difficult to smile, but as we have seen,
07:05 there are those who have done it and those who do it.
07:08 If you think about it, perhaps, it is easier to fall in love with your smile
07:12 if you leave the pitch, if you pass on another emotional trench.
07:17 Football is not unique, football is not only about the pitch.
07:21 Football is for everyone.
07:22 Around the pitch there are many hearts beating like those of the fans.
07:26 The kick of emotion is what makes you remember a smile forever.
07:30 Who cheers for a team always remembers
07:32 what period of their life was,
07:35 the one in which their team painted their smile.
07:38 As a Red-Black fan Sarah Croce tells,
07:41 an Italian model who appeared on TV shows like "Ciao Darwin" is ahead of another.
07:45 I smile thinking of Milan when I think back to the moments
07:48 spent together with my brother and my dad watching
07:51 the team of Ancelotti with Kaká, Seedorf, Maldini, Inzaghi, Pirlo.
07:57 In short, they were unforgettable moments that I will always carry in my heart.
08:02 But something different can also happen.
08:05 It may happen to be fans and players at the same time.
08:09 How many fans of Milan have won with the Milan jersey?
08:13 When they passed from the curve to the field,
08:15 from the stands to the green of the grass of San Siro and the stadiums around the world.
08:20 Giovanni Lodetti made you Milan and became world champion,
08:24 just like Filippo Galli and Demetrio Albertini,
08:26 like Rino Gattuso.
08:27 When you are a fan of the games,
08:29 wearing the jersey of your team of the heart
08:31 and maybe score a goal,
08:33 you give a news to yourself.
08:35 Like that news you were waiting for at the radio
08:37 when you were not lucky enough to combine profession and passion,
08:40 fanfare and agonistic effort.
08:42 And then the smile is double when things go well.
08:45 As well knows and as well remembers Luca Antonelli,
08:48 talent of the Primavera Rossonera in 2006 and 2007,
08:51 but also an important reference point of the first team
08:54 from 2015 to 2017.
08:57 I have many episodes when I think of Milan.
09:00 I remember the 23rd of December 2006,
09:03 my debut in Serie A at Udine instead of Sèdre.
09:07 I remember the debut as a big player,
09:09 the Juventus Stadium where I scored.
09:12 I remember the goal against Frosinone with pleasure
09:14 because the day before my daughter was born.
09:16 And above all I remember the Super Cup
09:19 when I won against Juve in the Liguri.
09:22 You know that when I think of Milan
09:24 I always get a smile because it is the team of my heart.
09:27 A smile is forever, you do it once and you never forget it.
09:31 It can be a consolation for the moments
09:33 when things go less well because football is cyclical.
09:36 The smile is like the haystack of a time,
09:38 like the box of serenity,
09:40 to be opened when it is needed to remember a moment
09:43 when football is sport, Milan is the result.
09:46 They were able to give an emotion
09:48 destined to never disappear because the smile does not fade,
09:52 but has the strength to spread even after years,
09:54 as Andrea Montovoli's testimony,
09:57 a theatrical, cinematographic and television character, recites.
10:01 I get a smile from the devil
10:04 every time I see and wear the colours of the Red Sands.
10:08 A particular episode is the Champions League night,
10:14 when we raised it for the seventh time.
10:18 It makes me smile.
10:21 The penalty of Shevchenko in the final of Manchester
10:26 makes me smile again.
10:28 And every time Rafa makes a nice play
10:33 he has that nice smile on his face.
10:36 By the way, attention to social media, says Rafa Leao.
10:39 Only for a moment, without a smile,
10:41 while he thinks and elaborates this concept,
10:44 because it is a world with many nuances.
10:46 Yes, those beautiful ones of sharing and harmony,
10:50 but also no, those of insult, threat and anonymity.
10:54 You have to know how to surf,
10:56 you have to be able to steer and anchor
10:58 between one photo and the other, between one post and the other.
11:01 It takes a lot of realism, a lot of patience
11:04 and then disinvolvement, subtlety.
11:06 You have to be able to not give weight
11:08 to all the things that are read on social media.
11:10 A great fan of Milan, like Alessandro Iacobone,
11:13 very active on social media,
11:15 with photos, images, with correctness and serenity
11:18 he tries it every day.
11:19 Even to him, the red-black smiles will not be taken away by anyone
11:23 and he keeps them very tight.
11:25 For reasons to smile, Milan gave me many, personally.
11:29 In my still short life I have seen trophies,
11:32 I have seen victories that have given me a smile,
11:35 I have seen Milanistas, Milan Club,
11:37 met along our territory, in Italy and abroad.
11:41 Everyone has produced a smile, because Milan is a smile.
11:45 But your question brings me back, brings me back to a moment,
11:49 after a defeat, on a rainy day, it was raining, it was late,
11:54 after the press conference, I was coming home
11:57 and there was a traffic light, all over the place,
12:02 obviously a bad result for our Milan.
12:06 Yet it was enough to see the bus
12:08 that approached my car right at the traffic light
12:12 to see an old friend in him,
12:16 a friend who you love even when you don't shine with joy.
12:21 And this is the moment when Milan gave me the most sincere smile
12:26 I can remember.
12:28 (upbeat music)
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