As a Brooklyn-raised Brazilian-American storyteller raised on Pelé’s legacy and my mother’s Portuguese lullabies, I watched Ferdinand’s candid take on United’s transfer plans—and it broke something in me. Not just logic, but emotion. This isn’t about transfers. It’s about belonging. When he said, 'I wanted Osmeñ to be the 9,' I heard my own childhood echo. Football isn’t played with stats. It’s lived in the stands, in the chants, in the silence after the final whistle.