Agnaldo Pinto de Moraes Júnior was a wide-eyed teenager when he first ventured outside of Brazil. The 17-year old was joined on his trip by four friends - but they were not a group of young lads on a typical jaunt to Magaluf or Ibiza.
Instead, Agnaldo and the Samba stars touched down in England and immersed themselves in life at arguably the world’s biggest football club - Manchester United.
The first thing he remembers? “The weather was a big shock!” Agnaldo jokes. “Everybody says, ‘it’s really cold’, but I didn’t know, you need to feel it first to understand. “I came from 35 degrees to 2 or 3 degrees in England - I didn’t feel my feet, I didn’t feel anything in the first week!” The difficulty acclimatising is not hard to understand.
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