Brazil’s Anderson is a Good Guy

July 30th, 2008 | by: Laurie | View Comments

This is one of those stories that makes my maternal area go all soft and squishy.

Seems Anderson, the Brazilian ManU guy, absolutely made the life of a twelve-year-old fan in Singapore.

Nishok, the fan, left his friends behind to go watch the Brazilian Olympic team train. Toward the end of the session, he broke into a song about his favorite player, Anderson — one that Manchester United fans may be familiar with:

‘Anderson-son-son, he’s better than Kleberson…’*

(*Full words and video of the song at the bottom. I wonder if this kid sings the whole thing at home, and if so, if his mom washes his mouth out with soap? Not that it’s not a great song. As far as football chants go. Just that I don’t think it was conceived as a song/chant for a twelve-year-old.)

But the song got Anderson’s attention.

First he waved at Nishok. A while later, he pointed towards the boy while sitting down and talking to a team-mate.

Then came the unexpected as his team-mates trooped off the field. Anderson stood up, and headed towards a stunned Nishok. With a swing of his arm, he threw up a boot. It was caught by someone next to Nishok, but Anderson signalled for it to be passed to him instead.

Then, he threw the remaining boot.

And it didn’t end there.

As Anderson warmed down at the side of the pitch, he signalled for the Brazilian media officer to invite Nishok down from the grandstand on to the field, to have a chat with him.

For the second time, Nishok was the envy of the 500 plus spectators, as he chatted with the player for close to five minutes. At one point, Brazil coach Dunga even helped him to snap a photograph.

Nishok, who plays football with his friends once a week, said: ‘His first words to me were, ‘How are you, my friend?’ ‘Then, he asked me to sing him the song again, so that he could hear the lyrics clearly.’

For good measure, Anderson also signed on the pair of boots.

For a full picture gallery, click here.

It’s almost enough to make one forget past stories involving a Travelodge, English language learning and an extreme lack of social skills.

Almost.

Curious about the Anderson song? Here it is. And if you can’t understand the words? I’m all about enlightening people today, so here those are too.

Anderson, son son. He’s better than Kleberson. Anderson, son son. He’s our midfield magician. To the left, to the right. To the samba beat tonight. He is class with a brass. And he s***s on Fabregas!

LATE ADD: Reader Dylan gives us the video that shows Nishok actually singing the song. His mother must be every bit as proud as I was when I heard my own twelve-year-old son sing AC/DC’s “Big Balls.” (But my son didn’t do it on international television. That I know of.)