PAULO CÉZAR CAJU: A NOJENTA TRAIÇÃO QUE ACABOU COM ELE

Three-time world champion at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. Four-time winner of the Brazilian Silver Ball. Pelé's teammate on the national team. The only Brazilian player to have worn the jerseys of Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense, and Vasco da Gama. The red-haired kid from the Cocheira favela. The rebellious genius who, for an entire decade, was considered the natural successor to the king of football. And this same guy, at 36 years old, selling his World Cup gold medal for a bag of cocaine in the early morning hours in the Lapa neighborhood of Rio. Drinking three bottles of whiskey a night. Buying drugs from twelve-year-old kids in the Vidigal favela. Attempting to end his own life one morning in March 1985. For 40 years, Brazil believed that Paulo Cézar Caju fell because of drugs. It's a lie. His downfall was due to three betrayals so brutal, so disgusting, so coordinated, that no one in Brazil dared to tell them for half a century. Three betrayals signed by three people: his adopted brother who grew up alongside him, his biological father who never wanted to acknowledge him, and the Brazilian military regime that decided, in 1968, that the red-haired kid was a national threat. Today you'll find out who Caju sold his World Championship medal to. What his adoptive father confessed three days before he died. And the secret SNI operation that, for seventeen years, had the mission of destroying the three-time champion from within with cocaine paid for in dollars. Subscribe to the Fallen Stars channel to learn the real stories of Brazilian idols that the press never told. And share this video with that person you thought of while reading this text. Before it's too late.