The Silva Family

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The Ball from 1970

The football Vovô bought the day after Brazil won the 1970 World Cup, and the one day a year he let anyone kick it.

The ball, and the yellow card he kept with it.
The ball, and the yellow card he kept with it.

The story

“He bought it the next morning and never let us play with it. Once a year, on the twenty-first of June, he took it down, kicked it once against the wall — just once — and put it back. He kicked it once a year, on the anniversary, and then put it back on the shelf.”

How it came down to us

Paulo has the ball now, and kicks it once a year. His daughter Júlia wrote it down in 2020.