Leader Cafu hasn’t forgotten favela out in swanky suburbs

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Leader Cafu hasn’t forgotten favela out in swanky suburbs

Instead, he is the only man in history to have played in three World Cup finals, captaining the side to victory in 2002.

In doing so he became one of the most celebrated figures in Brazilian public life, in part because he never forgot where he came from: the favela, the street.

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