Am I missing something? I was checking the internet but didn't find anything- he's still alive and is not on his way to Japan? On an unrelated note, neat little fact- I checked Wikipedia and it's been 6 seasons now without a Brazilian top scorer in J1. Before that, we had six straight years of Brazilian top scorers.
Hehe, thought it could be nice to revive it for nostalgic reasons IT was a bit of a different vibe and language back then!