It was spring in Wolfsburg, April 4, 2009. Crocuses poked their heads out beside the walkway to the stadium, but the idyll ended a few hundred metres later. The Volkswagen Arena was sold out. Thirty thousand spectators wanted to see the giant duel with Bayern Munich.\n\nDown in the catacombs sat a young man whose name everyone would know in a few hours: Edinaldo Batista Libânio.
He heard none of the spring above. He sat calmly in front of his locker, left boot first, then right.\n\n“Bayern are strong, but we are strong too,” he told himself.
