How Gabriel Jesus rose from besotted teenager to part of Brazil's big World Cup picture

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There are pictures from 2014 of a 17-year-old Gabriel Jesus, brush in hand, helping to paint the street where he lived as World Cup fever swept Brazil. Four years on, Jesus is no longer the painter but the painted. Several adjoining houses in Jardim Peri, the Sao Paulo neighbourhood where he grew up, have been daubed in turquoise, green and yellow with an image of Jesus performing his now familiar goal celebration, where he pretends to phone his mother, Dona Vera, his biggest fan and harshest critic.

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