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BarcelonaIt doesn’t fail. Whether at the door of a stadium in Austria, in a lost nightclub in Cape Town or elsewhere check-in from a hotel in Lima. Every time a stranger who is a football fanatic sees my ID, he automatically completes: “Thiago Arantes… Do Nascimento!” No, even if my father told me there was a missing branch of the family tree that would lead us to Três Corações, I stopped believing we were family years ago.