ANR’s man in Rio de Janeiro, Alexandre Abreu Gontijo, says :
“He played one game very well in his life – the people here are mad to try find any new great thing. A lot of things happened very fast to him. It’s unfair to call him a has-been, but it is wrong to call him very good player. He has already been in Europe playing for Braga, where the people remember him as a local Imelda Marcos, because he brought 20 suitcases to Portugal.”
More on Arsene’s model later today.