A 44-year-old man who has closed Inter Milan has a rare disease!

In the 8th-finals of the Club World Cup, Brazilian team Frumenense defeated Inter Milan without losing a goal. The core of this defensive master class is the combination of 40-year-old Thiago Silva and goalkeeper Fabio. Fabio will turn 45 in September this year. However, Fabio showed no sign of slowing down. In fact, he is chasing a record that many people think is out of reach.

Fabio aims at historical milestones: chasing Hilton, with Ronaldo behind him. After the Shining Club World Cup, Fabio attracted global media attention not only for his save, but also for the numbers behind his legendary career. He is now expected to surpass the record of official career appearances held by former England goalkeeper Hilton.

Fabio maintained three clean sheets in four games of this event. His recent appearance has brought his career clean sheets to 507, surpassing Italian legendary goalkeeper Buffon. But the major goal now is the total number of appearances. According to the Guinness World Record, Hilton led the way with 1,390 official games, although he claimed 1,387 games. Hilton has 1,249 club appearances, as well as 125 matches for England's national team and 13 other matches for the U-23 national team. This makes the current benchmark 1387 games.

Anyway, Fabio is approaching. He still stands between the posts and rewrites football history one after another. Fabio renewed his contract with Fruminense in May, so São Paulo fans are already preparing to celebrate the new record holder later this year.

C Ronaldo has also renewed his contract and has a great chance to regain the top spot in the future, because the Portuguese star is still active in the national team and is still the main player in the victory in Riyadh. It's very likely that Fabio won't keep the record for too long, but it's already impressive that someone can surpass Hilton itself.

By the way, you shouldn't be surprised if you've never heard of Paul Bastock, who ranks fourth on the list. He set a record when playing for England's seventh-level England team. Bastoke spent most of his career at semi-professional clubs, and worked as a window cleaner. As for Cheney, who ranked fifth, he is still the goalkeeper with the most goals in history. The youth team is standing side by side with Ronaldinho and Matuzaren, but never plays for the adult national team. Fabio's career began in the 20th century and played for Uniang Bandelanti and Atletico Minero. Interestingly, neither club has confirmed whether Fabio has played official games for them, and one of them is no longer there.

What we know is that he has played for Brazilian youth teams at all levels and has even won the U-17 World Cup championship. In that team are players such as Diogo Lincon, Matuzaren and Ronaldinho. Two years later, many of these players formed the U-23 national team, but lost to Uruguay in the World Cup quarter-finals.

Fabio was also selected for the adult national team and was part of Brazil's 2004 Copa America championship lineup, but sat behind Cesar as a substitute throughout the tournament. Fabio has not played for even a minute on behalf of the adult national team.

The club has a full cabinet of honors, and after the trough, welcoming a revival. However, at the club level, Fabio won a full cabinet of trophy. He won the Rio State Championship for the first time with Vascoda Gama in 2003, but what really made him a legend was in Cruzero. From 2005 to 2021, he spent most of his career here. During his time at

, he was selected into the All-Squad of the Brazilian League twice. Still, a long career has not been without its troughs. After a particularly bizarre concede, Fabio revealed that he had been abused by fans.

When he left Cruzero, many people thought his career was about to end. However, this is the beginning of a revival. The transfer to Fruminense brought new sparks, and in 2023 he played a key role in the club's historic South American Liberators Cup, a victory that also qualified them to participate in the Club World Cup. He only slept for three hours a night—a rare syndrome result of a rare syndrome “I often do self-analysis. It is this that allows me to continue playing football and not indulge in the past. I am much better now than I used to. That’s why age doesn’t bother me. I train much more intensely than when I was young. The young goalkeepers have also helped me a lot,” Fabio said.

Driven by self-discipline, belief and self-awareness, the 44-year-old goalkeeper is redefining the career life of football. Interestingly, Fabio only slept for three hours a night, but he felt very good. The veteran goalkeeper also doesn’t believe strength training or massage can help recover.

"I went to bed at 4 a.m. today. I woke up at 7 a.m. and sent my daughter to school and my son to driving class. Now I'm on the training ground. I don't do strength training and my teammates are always surprised. I don't do massages, I've had a few massages. I feel great. When I was in Cruzero, we did a sleep test. I had a very good result and had a deep sleep. The time I slept enough for me to recover," Fabio once explained.

He belongs to a very small number of people in the world that account for less than 5% of the world and suffers from a condition called "short sleep syndrome", which allows them to fully recover and function normally with much less rest time than usual.