“There is a Brazilian saying that the soccer prodigy Neymar and his family often laugh about. The phrase — calça de veludo ou bunda de fora — comes up frequently: when Neymar reminisces about his beginnings in street games in São Vicente, for example, or when someone asks, again, ‘Are you really better than Messi?’ Always, the family returns to calça de veludo ou bunda de fora. And then they all giggle.” NY Times
A Soccer Prodigy, at Home in Brazil
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