walking around Talho on the hills outside Ribeira Brava (Sao Nicolau, Cape Verde) me and my travel companion started to chat with a guy who was busy painting a garage door.
This is what you do in these parts of the world, anything else would be rude. So we talked for a while with this sympathetic and somewhat shy man with the name Avelino.
When he heard that we where Swedes he commented “Eu tenho un primo na Suécia” I have a cousin in Sweden…. he is a football player..
Okey… ??
Yeah his name is Henrik, Henrik..Larsson.
What are the odds?? I thought!
For those who are not football aficionados I can informe you that Henrik Larsson made his last match for the Swedish national team 2009. He has played for various international clubs among them FC Barcelona 2004-2006..
It seems that Henrik got his name after Avelinos father Henrique. We kept talking with the modest painter for a while. He was following the ongoing world cup in Brasil of course, as everybody else these days, but did not normally play himself, he was more of a jogger!
when we left I could not help myself thinking once again.. what are the odds!!?
Thanks to Liv Grethe I can show a family picture as well.. Henriks father, Francisco Rocha, is supposedly the “boss” in the middle!
The figure in this image really pops off the surface with the black ground. Very nice.
LikeLike
thank you… the thing is that being a Swede.. the story he told us kind of popped out as well. What a coincidence!!
LikeLike
The man spoke the truth. And things get funnier when i say that Henri’s grandfather (Arsenal player) lives in the same village.
LikeLiked by 1 person