“How many times have you seen Baggio shooting the penalty over Taffarel in the Rose Bowl, on July 17, 1994? Twenty, thirty? You will see it once more. And I can promise you will suffer the same anxiety again and feel the same heat of California that day.

I was there, on that afternoon. It all lasted not more than three seconds, you recall. Three seconds in which the genial Austrian Manfred Neuwirth, in just one interminable minute, leads us to ecstasy again in LEMBRANÇAS BRASILEIRAS.

What Neuwirth achieves, with just one image, is to give us the emotion of the goal back. I am sure you will be, once more, afraid. You pray again. So much! This is cinema: an action and an emotion. All the rest is soccer.”

Mario Prata, Brazilian journalist and writer