Carlos Alberto Pintinho Opens Up to Football España

From Marcao to Alex Telles, from Fernando to Diego Carlos, a total of 22 Brazilian players represent Sevilla, Canario becoming the first after arriving from Real Madrid in 1962, followed by Duda’s arrival in 1975 via Vitoria Setubal. Whilst Sevilla’s first two Brazilian acquisitions came from Iberian clubs, their third – Carlos Alberto Pintinho – came directly from Brazil. Born on June 15, 1954, Pintinho was raised in the favela of Morro do Borel but managed to avoid economic hardship as a result of his grandfather’s work at the Souza Cruz cigarette factory and attended private school. Like so many other kids in the Rio de Janeiro region, Pintinho started off plying his trade on the streets or beaches in ‘pelada’ matches before graduating to futsal for the Souza Cruz futsal team, where he impressed against the region’s top sides and eventually earned an invitation from America in order to get his footballing career started, only to revert to pelada after the club closed its academy. Pintinho then joined Flum