Santo André

It was not long before he was making his senior debut, aged 15, on 7 September 1956, scoring the first of more than 1,000 career goals in a 7-1 win against Corinthians Santo Andre.

He first came to prominence in 1975, when he was the bishop of Santo Andre, an industrial region near São Paulo, and sided with striking autoworkers opposed to the country’s military dictatorship.

When the government tried to take over the unions, he offered them space in Santo Andre’s churches to organize, and if necessary to hide.

That changed in 1975, when he arrived in Santo Andre driving a beat-up Volkswagen.

On the fringes of Sao Paulo, the hard-bitten suburb of Santo Andre was already a major manufacturing center by the time Hummes first juddered into town, a newly minted bishop in a dilapidated old car.