Paulo Sérgio Scudieri Angioni was a pioneering figure in the concern for human values in Brazilian football, anticipating by decades debates that would only later become fundamental topics in player development. Angioni reacted to this concern initially by instinct, managing human capital at a time when the Brazilian football process was marked by amateurism and backward practices.
He was one of the first professionals to give preference to the so-called "excluded" of football, those boys discarded at the end of a cycle, opening a window to life for young people who were abandoned annually, at least a dozen of them, according to the article's author.
Angioni's work involved the professional management of expectations of a naive and semi-literate majority, people who gave up their studies in favor of a youthful dream. His work ranged from concern for these young people's survival to the desire for social advancement, from the fear of not being accepted to the need to exist as a professional.
The author recognizes Angioni as a guardian of human values in Brazilian football and states that his absence will be felt, highlighting the significant impact of his pioneering work in the humanization of a sporting segment that, at the time, lacked professionals with this sensitivity.
