Brazilian Alex Telles has spoken in great detail about how the scar on the side of his head came while playing for Gremio against Internacional in his homeland.
“It was in the Gre-Nal derby,” he told Inside United. “Fred was playing for Inter at the time, we were rivals. It was a high ball and I clashed heads with an Internacional player. I ended up with a depressed fracture.
“I had to have an operation on my head to reconstruct the skull bone. The scar is now part of my identity, a reminder of my story for the rest of my life.