The morning of March 8, 2001, Kaká left his home to go grocery shopping with his mother.
All his life, they blended in easily with other shoppers. He soon would realize, however, that his reality had changed forever.
The previous night in front of 71,668 people in the Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo — the famed home of São Paulo Football Club, better known as Morumbi — an 18-year-old Kaká scored two goals in a 2-1 win over Botafogo in the Rio-São Paulo championship.
By that next morning, as he shopped at a supermarket alongside his mother, Kaká's life began to pivot.