[4] Breno, however, refused to sign with Real Madrid after the club wanted a bone analysis to prove his young age.

[5] Breno was recommended to Bayern Munich by one of their former players, Giovane Élber, who was later on recruited as a scout in his native country, Brazil.

[10] Club officials had previously advised him to seek help from a psychiatrist in regards to injury frustrations, which some feared were career ending.

FC Nürnberg director of football Martin Bader and Eintracht Frankfurt executive chairman Heribert Bruchhagen.

[17] In January 2013, Breno's proposal for his revised sentence was rejected by the German Federal Court of Justice due to his situation not constituting a formal error of law, after his lawyer says he was under the influence of potentially dangerous medication which could have caused the events which led to his imprisonment.

[18] In May 2013, Breno was used by Bayern Munich club president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge as an example of neglect from Brazilian Football Confederation.

For Rummenigge, while the Brazilians struggled for liberation of Dante and Luiz Gustavo to play in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup; the defender, on the other hand, was abandoned.