"The day they rejected me, it snowed heavily.
Later, I made golden rain fall on stadiums around the world. "
Winter 2010, Qinhuangdao Football School.
Li Leo, a 15-year-old Chinese-Pakistani genius, scored a hat-trick on the snow - including a hook that went down in history.
What was waiting for him was an evaluation report that "does not conform to the Chinese football philosophy."
And a whisper: "Two hundred thousand, I'll leave a place for you."
That night, he tore up a letter of allegiance written in Portuguese and threw the football into the darkness.
"I will come back. With a victory you will never win."
From the concrete floor of the slums of São Paulo to the roar of the mountains and tsunami in the South Stand of Westphalia;
From the barb that rewrote history in the World Cup final, to 80,000 people at the Bernabeu chanting "Magician";
With the surname of China, the heart of Brazil, and the legs of the world, he broke all prejudices and shackles.
"They labeled me 'mixed race'.
I tore it into pieces with footballs and threw them into the sky -
That was the first time a new generation of children saw a rainbow. "
