Grafite smiled as he walked onto the pitch surrounded by his team-mates. Thirty thousand fans roared when kick-off came at 3:30. Wolfsburg started well and went ahead; Bayern, famed for their attacking football, looked strangely overwhelmed. In 2007 Grafite had still been playing for Le Mans in France while, far to the west, Bayern were heading into a stormy post-World Cup period.\n\nMichael Ballack had gone, the Double-Double years were over, and Felix Magath had left Bayern to become managing director of Wolfsburg in June 2007. Within two years he signed more than 30 players for 55 million euros.
One of them was the largely unknown Brazilian brought to Germany on the final day of the 2007 summer window.