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BIZARRE: Newcastle s bruno guimaraes explains the touching reason for his shirt number - What They Never Told You

Bruno Guimaraes pointed to the 39 on his black and white Newcastle shirt and revealed it is a symbol honouring his family and long journey to Tyneside.

“That is the number that has sustained my family when I was growing up,” the 24-year-old said on Monday.

For 20 years his dad Dick was a taxi driver in Rio, his cab no39.

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