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Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by elizabetholu(op): 12:40pm On Aug 06

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMJ2STTw5g?si=WwAcz5DtwEpHIUkQ

TEENAGE TRAGEDY Youth football star, 15, shot dead ‘after being mistaken for another target’ moments after playing in friendly

A YOUNG Brazilian footballer with dreams of going pro has been shot dead ‘by mistake’.

Former Sao Paulo youth star Micael Leandro da Silva was just 15 years old when he was struck by a bullet in Maceio on Saturday.

Police believe the shooting was carried out by rival drug trafficking gangs and that Micael, with no known ties to criminal activity, was hit after being mistaken for another target.

The teenager was rushed to hospital but he died from his injuries.

Several other people were also struck during the attack.

Minutes before the shooting, Micael had been playing in an amateur football tournament.

His dad, Marcos Antonio Leandro, told local media: “My family has been torn apart by two criminals who came and shot my son in the back.

“The match had just finished and he was getting changed, so he had no chance to run.

“I’m devastated. His siblings haven’t stopped crying.

“I brought all my children up with humility, showing them how to be good people. It’s not easy to lose a son who had so many dreams.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39972297/football-micael-leandro-da-silva-sao-paulo-brazil/

Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by eepeepook(f): 3:47pm On Aug 06
Just another day in Brazil’s favelas.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Nextjs: 4:07pm On Aug 06
Terrible honestly


Tinubu boys at work over there
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by ppogba: 4:07pm On Aug 06
Another Ronaldinho wasted for nothing.

RIP young budding talent.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Sensiblerealist(m): 4:08pm On Aug 06
The Brazilian ghettos and other ones in Latin America are more dangerous than the ones in SA not to to talk of Lagos
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by ScholitoMotors: 4:09pm On Aug 06
Ah!!! Which kind rough play be that nahhuh

They just short lived this boy’s dream
Who knows if he was the Ronaldo of tomorrow

How sad
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Ted4real: 4:09pm On Aug 06
Prayers is a spiritual currency that is deposited in the prayer bank for you to withdraw later of the benefits.

Sad and Unfortunate incident...!

Rest on kid.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by mecuries(m): 4:09pm On Aug 06
ppogba:
Another Ronaldinho wasted for nothing.

RIP young budding talent.
Na so plenty other Ronaldinho dey commot from Brazil since?...
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by wolesmile(m): 4:10pm On Aug 06
Nigeria happened to him...


Oh, sorry. It happened in Brazil 🇧🇷. I was about going on and on on how Tinubu and Nigeria failed him.


My bad. Sorilaboudat...
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by ppogba: 4:11pm On Aug 06
mecuries:
Na so plenty other Ronaldinho dey commot from Brazil since?...
At least, another one is long overdue.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by nairalanda1(m): 4:14pm On Aug 06
ppogba:
Another Ronaldinho wasted for nothing.

RIP young budding talent.
Depends. While I share your RIP, most of the boys playing football in the favellas or indeed in brazil would not make it into the big time like Ronaldinho. Many of them would end up leaving football and getting a real life job, a tiny minority would make it into a football club in Brazil, talkless of a mega european club(and by a football club in Brazil, I don't just mean Flamengo, fluminense, sao paulo, corinthians, santos or botafogo....it also means a club somewhere in the remote western part of Brazil too...so far away that it is basically a rural area).

Even the brazillians that make it to Europe, most of them end up playing in third or fourth or even lower divisions self. Or in some obscure European countries like the Faeroe islands. Being a Brazillian does not guarantee you an automatic pass into the big european clubs. You fight for the right of club membership like everyone else...
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Axis313(m):
Nextjs:
Terrible honestly


Tinubu boys at work over there
grin
Tinubu just dey live rent-free in on some people's brain.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by nairalanda1(m): 4:16pm On Aug 06
Axis313:
grin
Tinubu just dey live rent-free on some people's brain.
Brazil has some of the widest disparities in class re poverty because of decades of tinubu like leaders.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by deanoffaculty: 4:23pm On Aug 06
Sensiblerealist:
The Brazilian ghettos and other ones in Latin America are more dangerous than the ones in SA not to to talk of Lagos
Very dangerous!
Those ghettos in Colombia and Mexico are worse. Dem fit use your neighbor as 007 to kpai you.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by lamentor78(m): 4:27pm On Aug 06
Tinubu failed him in Brazil..... don't worry Obi is coming to pay condolences
Atiku will condemn it on his Twitter page.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by DeltaBachelor(m): 4:29pm On Aug 06
Chai ! This is so unfortunate. R.I.P Young blud
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by nairalanda1(m): 4:29pm On Aug 06
Sensiblerealist:
The Brazilian ghettos and other ones in Latin America are more dangerous than the ones in SA not to to talk of Lagos
Eh, our slums have nothing on the favelas of Brazil.

They even once had to use the army....the brazillian army...to clear out a favella of a violent drug gang. Literal war for several days. As bad as Nigeria is, government has not sent in the army to try to clear out Ajegunle for example.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Wadoboy(m): 4:34pm On Aug 06
Some of you are terrible, the comments

"Nigeria happened to him, Tinubu boys"


Some of una
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Love800(m): 4:34pm On Aug 06
To be gunned down or revenged because of mistaken identity is very sad and devastating.

I have been there. Remembered a group double cross me for resembling a target they are searching for. I had to plead my identity with all effort. It wasn't funny.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by DickenClarq(f):
Before opening this page I knew it will be one of those Latin American countries

MEXICO, COLUMBIA, BRAZIL, EL SALVADOR etc.

Those Latinos are very very violent and are savages.

Nigerian Boko Haram, Bandits and Cultist put together are still in Nursery one were those guys are. grin grin

Even in America the Blood and Crips don't play or do rubbish with the Cholos.

IMAGINE SOMEONE DRAWING TATTOOS TO COVER THEIR FACES AND THEIR HEAD. Some even draw Tattoos on their body and you will think they are wearing a cloth.

In Latin America Pastors and Reverend fathers draw Tattoos too

May the young lad rest in power



May God help us
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Pacesetter123(m): 4:45pm On Aug 06
lamentor78:
Tinubu failed him in Brazil..... don't worry Obi is coming to pay condolences
Atiku will condemn it on his Twitter page.
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Nawah. . o o oh funny comment
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by judewrites: 5:06pm On Aug 06
shocked

So young cut so soon!

But really nothing happens by accident....it's all settled spiritually before physically!
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by ppogba: 5:12pm On Aug 06
nairalanda1:
Depends. While I share your RIP, most of the boys playing football in the favellas or indeed in brazil would not make it into the big time like Ronaldinho. Many of them would end up leaving football and getting a real life job, a tiny minority would make it into a football club in Brazil, talkless of a mega european club(and by a football club in Brazil, I don't just mean Flamengo, fluminense, sao paulo, corinthians, santos or botafogo....it also means a club somewhere in the remote western part of Brazil too...so far away that it is basically a rural area).

Even the brazillians that make it to Europe, most of them end up playing in third or fourth or even lower divisions self. Or in some obscure European countries like the Faeroe islands. Being a Brazillian does not guarantee you an automatic pass into the big european clubs. You fight for the right of club membership like everyone else...
You might be right. It is most likely due to the abundance of talents.
A Brazilian player once played for FC Ifeanyi Ubah if I am not mistaken. Several of them are in South Africa and other back water leagues the world over.

I however totally disagree that most of them that make it to Europe are playing for third or fourth division teams. I stand to be corrected, at least, all the 20 teams in EPL will have at least a Brazilian. I also believe the same applies to La Liga. There are so many of them in Eastern Europe.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by themanderon: 5:26pm On Aug 06
Brazilian favelas are no joke. It's a crime riddled area full of violence blood and death.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by bluefilm: 5:27pm On Aug 06
Brazil is hell on earth

Their own cultism na something else
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Blunt99: 5:29pm On Aug 06
South America and drugs, and gang war, is like Nigeria with cult war.

Too bad he was wasted in the middle of social vices.

RIP to the lad.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by omoadeleye(m): 5:32pm On Aug 06
Mistake identity, so they decide to target a kid in the first place?
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by camri: 6:40pm On Aug 06
nairalanda1:
Depends. While I share your RIP, most of the boys playing football in the favellas or indeed in brazil would not make it into the big time like Ronaldinho. Many of them would end up leaving football and getting a real life job, a tiny minority would make it into a football club in Brazil, talkless of a mega european club(and by a football club in Brazil, I don't just mean Flamengo, fluminense, sao paulo, corinthians, santos or botafogo....it also means a club somewhere in the remote western part of Brazil too...so far away that it is basically a rural area).

Even the brazillians that make it to Europe, most of them end up playing in third or fourth or even lower divisions self. Or in some obscure European countries like the Faeroe islands. Being a Brazillian does not guarantee you an automatic pass into the big european clubs. You fight for the right of club membership like everyone else...
did Endrick, vinicius fight for anything?
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by nairalanda1(m): 6:43pm On Aug 06
camri:
did Endrick, vinicius fight for anything?
Note that I am not diminishing anyone.

Players like Endrick and Vini jr are the best of a very large number of players in brazil that number in the thousands every year.

Only a few make it to the top.Even doing well at youth level does not mean you would make it to the big clubs.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Mccullum: 7:41pm On Aug 06
Peter Obi can go to Brazil to mourn the teenager, After all he's a well known black cloth mourner.
Re: Micael Leandro da Silva Shot Dead After Being Mistaken For Target by Houseofglam7(f): 8:06pm On Aug 06
Ohh no!
May his soul rest in peace.
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