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[whirring of lenses to adjust focus]

[camera click and a owl's hoot]

♪

[click]

♪♪ Hey pretty girl, there’s a ring on your finger ♪

♪ but it’s monday night and I know where to go ♪

♪ Let’s go where the pirates meet ♪

♪ I’ll be there and moving my feet ♪

♪ I’ll be around ♪

♪ I’ll be around ♪

♪ Monday night where the pirates meet ♪

♪ I’ll be there and moving my feet ♪

♪

♪ Maybe this dance is new for you ♪

♪ but the music’s “for all” no one will be blue ♪

♪ So come a little closer that’s how it should be ♪

♪ For the pirates dance’s for you and me ♪♪

How did you find me here?

[Cedenir] I come running here once in a while,

I mean, I used to come.

Now I gave it up.

[Cedenir] So,

is the training tough?

As I requested.

[Cedenir] I don't know

why you're doing this.

You don't?

I can explain.

Because I'm not washed up,

a loser.

I know I can be a top athlete again,

but for this I need to train, work hard.

♪

[Cedenir] If you believe that.

♪ What is it, Cedenir?

Why did you come here for, to mess with me, is that it?

No, I didn't,

but if you want me to lie, I'll lie.

I've already told you once,

there are people who are born to succeed,

and there are people who aren't.

♪

So I didn't succeed.

And where does your money come from?

♪

From the guy who failed?

♪

[Cedenir] Luck! ♪

You should have made better use of your luck.

♪

Talent.

That thing you...

[Cedenir] It's alright, you can say it.

That thing I didn't have.

I recognize this, I own it.

I have no problem with that, I'm not afraid to face it.

Son, we're the same,

and you'll only suffer more if you try to change that.

It's over,

the same way it ended for me,

now it's over for you!

Such is life. What can you do? ♪

You...

♪

do you have any idea of how many times

I heard you telling me that when I was a kid?

♪

You don't, right?

Yeah,

if you were already a loser

the least you could've done

was to support me,

was cheer for me,

but no,

you wanted me to be worse than you.

♪

[Cedenir exhales]

I...

I did it to spare you

so you wouldn't get to this point.

♪

Actually I don't even know why I'm saying this,

I worry about you as a father!

♪

Not that you deserve

my concern.

♪

♪ This story is not based on real facts.

♪ However obvious they may seem.

♪ This is a work of fiction.

♪♪ I told you about my loss ♪

♪ My mind can't handle it ♪

♪ I need to take my time ♪

♪ The only truth to me ♪

♪ The past is coming now ♪

♪ in the worst way ♪

♪ I crossed my sweetest line ♪

♪ My pain is not a shame ♪

♪ What can I lie about? ♪

♪ To save my mind again ♪

♪ Where you hid my eyes ♪

♪ For I can't come back ♪

♪ Dark Soccer

♪

♪

Have you taken the medication correctly?

♪

[Gisa] As usual.

I've been taking it for over a year.

[Gisa] Is there any problem?

Any extra problem, I mean.

Your exams are not very good.

[noises]

[Pastor] So, were there many?

[Carol] Uhmm...

All of them died,

I think.

[Pastor] I can't even hear about these animals, I'm disgusted!

[liquid pouring]

[noise]

[Pastor] No cake?

♪

[noises]

[noises]

♪

You shouldn't have talked to your dad, Kadu!

What if he's right, uncle?

What if I'm that loser he said, I was lucky for a while and...

now I'm back to reality.

I have a daughter I can't meet.

I find a beautiful girl,

my type,

but she's more complicated than I am.

And my ex-wife, do you know who she's with?

With that son of a bitch of that president.

♪

[exhales]

♪

As if it was not enough, I sell my soul

to continue with the hospital and no one wants to support me.

♪

[exhales]

Fuck all this, man!

♪

I'll tell you a story, Kadu.

When your aunt left,

And I discovered that I had no money left in my bank account

with nothing on my name after 20 years of career!

How do you think I felt?

Just like you, my friend.

Just like you!

But I discovered that I needed to do something,

search for energy somewhere,

otherwise I would disappear,

I would disappear.

Disappear not to the others, but to me,

I looked at myself in the mirror and saw nothing, nothing!

And it's hard, nobody can stand to be nothing,

nobody can take it, you have to seek energy somewhere.

♪

Hi, president, all right? - It's all right.

Can we go?

Damn, I had forgotten completely,

No problem, if you want to do it another day.

No way. Come on, it's in my interest.

[exhales]

Neco,

You know I really like you.

I think you're the real leader of the locker room.

Thank you, president.

I know I already asked you a favor, but...

could I ask you for another one on behalf of our friendship?

You know I'm already paying two contracts

from those incompetents,

damn inheritance from that previous board,

you know that...

I'm gonna have a very big loss

an image loss, but mainly a financial one, if I

if I rescind Gilson's contract now.

But I don't understand

why you're talking about the teacher's dismissal.

I'll be honest with you.

Since you started being replaced in every game

the team's performance has dropped a lot.

I've been in this business for many years, boy.

You're the leader of the players especially the athletes of the faith.

♪

I don't lead anything president you're mistaken.

Neco, do me a favor,

go in the locker room, stimulate the boys,

make them play correctly again.

Talk to them.

Tell them to get back on their feet.

It's not for Gilson, it's not for the teacher, it's for me.

Make the guys work harder, play harder.

♪ [kick]

♪ [kick]

♪ [kick]

♪ [kick]

♪ [kick]

♪

♪ [kick]

♪

♪ [engine]

♪

[Sangaletti] You introduce me and leave me alone with him.

[neco] Okay, but...

I'll come back to the car.

[car door]

[door slam]

♪

I thought it was best

not to interfere, let him train a little alone,

to purify the spirit.

He's not okay.

[Genaro] Mr., has Kadu told you

anything about the Russians?

Something like...

[Jair] About the Russians? - Yeah.

He said that the Russians had given money to the hospital,

that they were pressuring him to come back quickly

because they wanted to recover that money

as fast as possible.

[Genaro] That was it.

[Pastor] It is perfectly possible for us to solve your problem.

[Sangaletti] Yes, because you are not fiscalized.

[Pastor] Yes, not very much.

The money that comes in is in cash, it's donations.

[Sangaletti] What is the origin of your church?

Africa.

[Pastor] The mother cell of our evangelization

comes from Africa.

♪

[Sangaletti] Many churches come from there,

it's a continent where it's difficult to identify the origin

♪

[Sangaletti] And the players,

this relationship of yours with soccer players.

Because it seems to be unanimous,

at least among the players in my club.

[Pastor] It's just that I've lived a long time among them.

[Sangaletti] Really?

[Pastor] I had a son who was a soccer player.

[Sangaletti] You had?

[Pastor] Unfortunately he is no longer with us.

♪

[Sangaletti] Well, sorry, I'm really sorry.

♪

Well, now for us to be able to finish our operation,

we just need to check what your commission will be.

[Pastor] Thirty.

[Sangaletti] Excuse me?

[Pastor] The church needs money,

you need our work

and you're gonna keep seventy percent,

I see no reason for complaint.

♪

Now, if you think it's better this way

we can end the matter here,

no one will ever know what we talked about.

You can be sure.

No pastor, there is no complaint.

It's just that I assumed

that this commission could be 10 at most 15%.

Actually, I thought a lot about it

and 30% wouldn't be enough to achieve

our goals here in the church.

I'm also not a man that breaks an agreement,

but since we don't have one yet

I must tell you that maybe...

No... 35%.

For less than that

I won't move a finger to solve your problem.

♪

Pastor,

I don't know,

I have to think about it.

There's deputy campaign season coming,

you know what it's like,

it's getting harder and harder to justify the costs,

the expenses.

In addition, there's always someaone

who need a special service.

♪

And in that regard, you can be sure

that I am the best!

♪

[steps]

I'm sorry, pastor.

I did not know you were in a meeting.

[Pastor] No, no.

No problem, brother,

he was already leaving.

It was a pleasure.

I hope to see you

in our cult, at least on Sundays.

Right, right.

♪

[Man] This one is big, huh.

♪

[Pastor] A son of a bitch, actually.

♪

[Man] You got the money?

♪

It's in there,

but this time make sure the guys in jail give us a return, alright Travis.

♪

I'm here, aren't I?

Wait a minute, I'll get the money.

♪

[Genaro] Sweating is good,

it's very good,

[Genaro] but without strategy it's no use.

Your uncle told me that you were growing day by day, but now...

[heavy breathing]

You know, Kadu,

I had a player, I won't say the name, but...

this guy was considered fundamental for the team.

After a while

he wasn't even in the substitutes' bench anymore,

and you know why?

Because his ex-wife

decided that he could no longer see his daughter.

[exhales]

[Genaro] I understand this universe.

[exhales]

Now everyone understands this universe,

but only who is in the skin of this universe

knows what they are really feeling.

Kadu, I'm not demanding anything from you,

on the contrary.

I'm simply saying that I understand and I'm with you.

Genaro, look,

what kind of team

do you really think might be interested in my soccer?

That doesn't depend on us anymore, Kadu.

The Russians want to recover the money invested in you,

and they want to make a lot of money off you

Now, finding a team that matches this

won't be easy.

[dogs barking]

[Kadu] And will the Russians search for this team?

[Genaro] I don't know, that I don't know.

I hope so, but Kadu,

you're gonna have to prove you're very well, very well!

Otherwise they're gonna use you in Plan B,

which is simpler for them.

Kadu,

I warned you,

I warned you.

Look,

Mr. president, look,

I can do what you asked me to do

but...

we need more experienced people,

got it?

I thought you were going to be able to work with just your crew.

No, we have the situation as you asked, do you understand?

But the point is that this operation is riskier,

you can't just go there and...

Understand?

No.

[noises]

Look,

the goalkeeper's brother

is a doctor,

it's not just a nobody, you can't go to his house

guns blazing, bacause we can fuck everything up!

Did you take all the photos using your phone?

Uhmm.

And you also did the research on your phone?

It's all there.

You really want to spend the rest of your life in jail

and want to drag me with you.

How can you do all the research using your phone, you imbecile!

♪

And what do I do?

♪

Take the cell phone chip out,

put it inside your microwave at home,

turn on the microwave, and wait fot it to burst,

then take it out and throw it away.

Just a question,

I'll be without a cell phone?

No Carniça, only without the chip.

I'll do the following, I'll find some guys

to help you with this issue...

in the goalkeeper's brother action.

I can't depend only on your...

reasoning.

Okay, my son?

♪

[Diogo] Relax, Tonho.

This factory belonged to my family.

I'm the only owner, there is no danger.

[Tonho] I have to get back, damn it!

Come on, will it take long?

[Suellen] He gets nervous when he leaves the neighborhood.

[Diogo] Thank God it's you who's going on this trip, Suellen.

[impact]

[Diogo] Today is training day.

The first thing you have to do is

swallow these capsules.

[Suellen] What's in them?

[Tonho] Don't ask, swallow that shit and be done with it!

Tonho, don't talk to me like that in front of him.

[Tonho] You wanna get beat up again?

[Suellen] Hit me, you son of a bitch!

[Diogo] No one is going to hit anyone here.

[Suellen] Coward!

[Diogo] This is a training session, we're starting really badly!

Fuck, Tonho!

I told you it was a bad ideia to put your girlfriend in this, damn it

If she does something I'll kick the shit out of her.

Listen to me,

when it involves the international market

everything is done with more...

with more planning,

with more caution, understand?

[Tonho] Okay.

Go train her, go train her,

I'm gonna make an appointment, okay? But look,

don't fuck my woman,don't do that shit.

Fuck your woman, are you crazy? She's a child,

with practically no experience, that will put us in trouble!

Experience, my ass!

Much more experienced than her whore sister!

There's no return!

♪

[Tonho] I'm leaving.

[Tonho] Swallow that shit!

♪

[Kadu] I can't understand the deal with Gisa.

[Jair] Don't look at me.

Don't look at me,

it's been a long time since I practiced

the noble art of trying to understand women.

In fact, I've never been an example for that.

Man, fuck all this.

Calm down.

Calm down that the way out from all this is within you.

Thanks, uncle!

It's you, it's Genaro,

everyone's telling me that I have to make it right again.

And your jerk of a father saying just the opposite.

Which side are you on?

Which team do you want to play in?

You're really something else, huh, Jair?

I'm something else,

I know how to deal with crybabies, that I know.

Did Tonho explain to you

how careful you have to be?

[Suellen] Yes, he did.

So many people do that, don't they?

♪

[Diogo] Yes, but...

you know it's dangerous.

Didn't my sister do this?

No, Gisa...

did other things, but not this.

So I want to do the dangerous and the other things.

I'll tell you something, Diogo,

when I get there,

I want you to find thigs for me to do, anything.

I'm staying, I'm not going back to the neighborhood.

[Diogo] Tonho... - He doesn't know!

And you won't tell him.

Because if I'm not mistaken,

it's in your interest that I take what you need there.

♪

Okay, I can help you,

but leave me out of this thing with Tonho.

You don't know what it's like to live in a poor neighborhood.

Gisa was an idiot to have come back.

What future do I have?

♪

I'm surprised you have it all so clear.

♪

Look,

have you heard,

of an old drug dealer?

♪

They don't get old.

♪

Now you can give me the test.

Promise you'll help me later.

♪

[Diogo] Two fingers all the way down.

♪

Hi, Kadu?

[Kadu] What's up, Roni. [slap]

[Jair] Hey, Roni.

[slap]

♪

[Jair] So, champ,

do we resume tomorrow or not?

If it's up to me...

Everything is under control with Tonho.

♪

[Kadu] What about Clara?

Come on, man I had some serious shit with Tonho

to make things right, and you don't even value it,

already with the subject of my daughter...

of your daughter that I already said I can't do anything!

Sorry, Roni. I'm sorry.

♪

[noises]

[door slam]

[steps]

[Diogo] What is the urgency, Flávia?

[Flávia] Did you get a new car?

I did!

[noises]

[Flávia] Where do you get so much money, little bro?

[Diogo sighs]

[Diogo] It's none of your business! What do you want?

[liquid pouring]

[Flávia] Diogo,

tell me the truth.

Why can't we get

the power of attorney for Mom and Dad's house?

Go and talk to the people who live there.

[Flávia] Is the house ours or not, Diogo?

Did you get a power of attorney?

[Diogo] I don't give a shit about that fucking house!

You should have settled this with dad while he was alive.

[Flávia] I want to go back to my childhood home.

To your childhood home.

Of your childhood.

♪

I hate that place,

♪

those walls,

that old man we had to call father!

♪

An old man who beat me so I could learn to be a man.

♪

That forced me to go with him to those fucking horse races

because that was man stuff.

Everything was man stuff.

Mom didn't do anything,

she didn't give a damn.

That wasn't a childhood.

That was a nightmare.

It only ended the day he died!

I was...

I was the happiest person at that wake.

It was difficult to disguise my joy

of carrying that coffin to the grave

and finally free myself from that life.

[noise]

[Flávia] I didn't know you felt that way.

[Diogo] Don't say anything. Get out!

♪ [steps]

♪ [steps]

♪♪ There is no chance, there is no way ♪

♪ There is no crying, there are some truths ♪

[Carol] I need to talk to you.

♪

[Kadu] How did you find out where I lived?

[Carol] Nice, I know her from the church.

[Kadu] Wow, Nice. Even you?

It's very important, please!

♪

[Diogo] I was the happiest person at that wake.

It was difficult to disguise my joy

of carrying that coffin to the grave

and finally free myself from that life.

[message ring]

♪

Dinner tonight?

[seatbelt click]

[Carol] I need to talk to you...

alone.

[Kadu] Nice, stay!

[Nice] But the girl wants to talk to you, Mr. Kadu.

[Kadu] She will speak in front of you.

[Carol] I can't.

It's...

It's a personal problem and I don't want

the people from the church to know about it.

[Nice] No problem, Mr. Kadu, I'll clean things upstairs,

she's the pastor's daughter.

[Kadu] Sit down!

♪

You have three minutes to talk.

Say it!

Come on!

♪

I...

I'm pregnant.

♪

Pregnant?

Does anyone else know?

Nobody,

only you.

Me?

But, why me?

Your dad... no one knows?

Actually, that's why I needed to talk to you

in person.

Carol,

I imagine what you're feeling,

but I've got enough problems to solve.

Do this,

go home,

talk to your dad,to your family.

I can't get involved in other people's problems right now.

Kadu,

I truly apologize for all this,

but you're the only one who can help me now.

But Carol,

we barely know each other,

you must be confusing things,

and more,

I don't know how I can help you.

It's that...

I need to say that you are the father.

Get out, okay, go home!

You know I've never touched you!

No, I'm having an abortion,

of course it's not yours.

It's that...

I can't tell who the real father is.

Are you crazy?

You can't joke about this.

You have to say who the real father is!

I can't.

Why can't you?

Is it Neco?

It's a player, is that it?

Is he an older guy, married?

It doesn't matter, you're just a girl,

this guy who did this to you will have to take responsibility!

You're a minor, got it?

If it's somebody from the church or not, fuck it!

You can't hide this guy's name!

What, do you want to protect the bastard who did this to you?

That's why you don't want to say his name?

It's the pastor.

♪

♪♪ I’m slowly dying, I left behind ♪

♪ I can't see sunrise no more ♪

♪ I closed the window, I'm giving up now ♪

♪ My path is getting short ♪

♪ I can't believe in a long ride ♪

♪ I need to find my feelings ♪

♪ To fight for rain, To see the sun ♪

♪ I cried for me but I want to run, I go ♪

♪ For my dreams, for my life ♪

♪ To belong to me again ♪

♪

♪ I’m slowly dying, I left behind ♪