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Luva de Pedreiro

History

Birth

Luva de Pedreiro

Iran de Santana Alves or Luva de Pedreiro was born in Quijingue, November 7, 2001.

Family and childhood

Family and childhood

He started working in the countryside, in the interior of Bahia, at the age of seven. The mother is a housewife, the father also works in the fields and the family of three has become used to living in poverty, in the village of 180 inhabitants, a five-hour drive from Salvador.

Missing meals became customary in the family's home, where they could have breakfast but not have lunch, or have lunch but miss dinner. That's why when hunger struck, Iran Ferreira killed her with mangoes, which grow abundantly on the trees of the hot interior of Bahia.

Working in the fields earned him something like five euros a week, plus his father's salary and social support from the Brazilian government to needy families. It was for this reason that Iran Ferreira bought a second-hand mobile phone that would change history for him.

Why Luva de Pedreiro?

Why Luva de Pedreiro?

This nickname "O Cara da Luva de Pedreiro", emerged from the fact that the young man did not have enough money to buy a pair of cold gloves like those used by players who play in Europe, so he used creativity to overcome this adversity.

Career

Career

However, the videos were not immediately successful. The first ones were, in fact, a reason for enjoyment and Iran Ferreira began to appear in memes. But the Bahian didn't give up or go under.

«O primeiro vídeo que fiz foi aqui campo de futebol onde sempre joguei, de terra batida, cheio de mato. Eu pedi para um amigo gravar e aí só rematei à baliza, daquele jeito, como sempre fiz.”

The success was not the dream, but the friends liked it and Iran Ferreira did not give up the dream.

Later came the idea of ​​the glove. Inspired by the players he saw playing on television with gloves, to fight the cold of European football, Iran Ferreira also wanted to cover his hands in the videos. With no money to buy sports gloves, he bought some bricklayer's gloves, in a construction house, all torn and that he sewed himself at home. They are still the gloves he uses today.

From there, he imposed on himself the nickname Luva de Pedreiro, which caught on and became famous.

The truth is that the videos of Luva de Pedreiro started to be more successful. Initially they were posted on TikTok, one day Iran Ferreira received thirty likes and thought he was famous.

It was then that the buzzword that made it viral was born. «Receive», the word that screams in all the videos and that comes from the Bahian jargon. It is a diminution of «get the chicken jumping», a saying that can be translated as a kind of «go get it». Iran Ferreira says it was a way of responding to the criticism that the first videos deserved.

"Receba. Obrigado, meu Deus. Tem que respeitar. Luva de Pedreiro é o melhor do mundo. Deus é pai. Siuuuuuuuuuuuuu."

Currently

Now he has 18 million followers on the networks and is imitated by players from Liverpool, Bayern and even Cristianinho. “O filho de Ronaldo fez-me muito feliz. Receba! Sim!",

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