FREESTYLE SAVED MY LIFE
"Freestyle saved my life." In the title of the latest work from the Juventus Creator Lab, there's the perfect summary of the fabulous story of its protagonist, Adonias Fonseca.
A native of Miraí, Brazil, a town about 300 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro, after winning a contest organized by Juventus, he has been the club's official freestyler for a year now. But to achieve what he himself calls the dream of a lifetime, he had to overcome obstacle after obstacle: from an initial injury that shattered his hopes of becoming a professional footballer, to his father's illness that forced him as a teenager to shoulder the weight of his family, working while studying civil engineering and, at just eighteen, becoming a father. Throughout this journey, he has always been accompanied by his love for freestyle, which soon joined his passion for futsal, the five-a-side football that is popular in Brazil.
Thanks to his friend Falcao, the undisputed king of futsal, he decided to try his hand at professionalism, hindered however by a new, serious injury. Anyone else would have despaired. Not Adonias, who while undergoing rehabilitation, plans and builds a soccer academy for the children of Mirai, teaching them every day not only how to be on the field, but also how to be in the world. For a year now, he has been doing this wearing the Juventus shirt.