“I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.”

Brazilian actor, director and producer

Fernando Monteiro Torres was a Brazilian actor, director and producer in television, film and theatre. His career in Brazilian performance spanned more than five decades, and he is best known to international audiences for his supporting role as Americo in the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman. He also founded Teatro dos Sete in 1959. Across stage and screen, he worked as both performer and creator, building a long career in Brazilian film, theatre and television. The available details point to a figure closely tied to Brazilian popular culture and to a major film that brought him wider recognition.