A midfielder who won everything there is to win in football also carries a childhood that trophies cannot erase.
As a child, in his neighborhood in Brazil, a street vendor would pass by offering Yakult, a drinkable yogurt that Casemiro loved. His family almost never had enough to buy him one, even though it cost only a few cents. That waiting, that pent-up longing, stayed etched in his memory.
When he signed his first professional contract with Sao Paulo, he didn’t buy clothes, cars or luxuries: he brought home more than 80 bottles of Yakult all at once. Today, whenever he returns to Brazil, he can have several a day. It’s neither a whim nor cheap nostalgia — it’s the way he found to remind himself, every day, where he came from and how much it cost him to get here. 🥛❤️