Chapter 8 RUDá: SHE JUST WANTED TO PLAY FOOTBALL

HEAVY WORK IN THE FIELD, RUDÁ AND HER FATHER WOKE UP AT MORNING, AND FOLLOWED HUGGED AND WALKING WITH THEIR HOES ON THEIR BACK.

EVEN THEY ARRIVED IN THE FARMING, THE SADNESS AND THE SILENCE WERE ACCOMPANIED, BY THE BIRDIES THAT FLYED OVER THEIR HEAD, EVERY DAY THEY REMEMBERED THE MOTHER JUMANI, PATAMU CONSOLIDATED RUDÁ AS HE COULD.

RUDÁ JUST THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVING THAT PLACE, AND WINNING THE WORLD PLAYING FOOTBALL, AND GIVING A DECENT LIFE FOR HIS FATHER, SINCE HIS MOTHER HAD BEEN BECOMING THE SPIRIT OF THE FOREST.

SOME MONTHS PASSED BY, MR. JOJO APPEARED AT RUDÁ'S HOUSE, ASKING AUTHORIZATION TO TAKE HER FOR A TEST, AT A LARGE FOOTBALL CLUB IN RIO DE JANEIRO.

WITH EVERYTHING PAID, HE WOULD TAKE RUDÁ AND HIS SON NADIR, FOR A ONE-MONTH TEST, THEY WOULD BE IN THE CLUB'S FACILITIES, IF APPROVED THEY WOULD SIGN CONTRACTS AS PROFESSIONALS.

RUDÁ'S FATHER SEE HIS DAUGHTER'S EYES SHINE, HAD NO WAY TO SAY NO, KNOW IT WAS HIS DAUGHTER'S DREAM OF PLAYING FOOTBALL, HE DIDN'T WANT RUDÁ TO END LIFE WITH A HOE ON HIS BACK.

A SADNESS IN THE HEART, OR EVEN, MARRIING WITH A JECA TATU PINGUÇO DA ROÇA, WHICH CHEWED A ROLL