Reasonable similarities
Rafael Leao said that both professions, rapper and footballer, have common traits: we have a common lifestyle, but above all a sense of rhythm.
Between workouts, meetings and other hobbies typical of his age -he recognized some of them as games with PlayStation and Netflix series-, Rafael Leao has already brought out his artistic side with his first album, Start. On Spotify, WAY 45, his stage name, it racks up nearly half a million plays. In an interview with Download, the striker recalled his difficult beginnings in Bairro da Jamaica and his father’s efforts to pay him a train ticket to the sports city of Sporting Lisbon, the club where he grew up as a footballer. I was little. We didn’t know how to pay for the tickets and that transport was the only way to reach the training ground. Football was my dream, Leao said.
In his rap songs he reveals more memories and thoughts until he reaches San Siro. I don’t remember how many hours I spent looking for a happy ending, Leao rhymes choicesone of his most played songs from his first movie.
The Portuguese is one of the rising stars of a Milan champion. Supported by the team’s spiritual leader, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whom he considers a big brother, his start to this season maintains its upward trend with seven goals and nine assists in 20 games. A streak that lasts at the World Cup and which should alert Joao Flix, the starting theorist in his place. And it is that, there is no doubt: Leao has come to stay.
