Brazilian Saudi
One Brazilian. Millions of Saudi hearts.
I'm Samuel Silva. I sang with the Al-Hilal crowd, I was invited to Riyadh, and Brazil's biggest TV told my story. Now I'm building technology for Saudi sport.
The story
Brazilian, in love with sport and technology. Based in Florianópolis, building large-scale software and apps for 15 years. Entrepreneur.
Qatar World Cup. Saudi fans taught me their chants. I sang along, every single day.
One video for my Saudi friends hit 1M+ views overnight and I became an Al-Hilal content creator. The channels took off together: X, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. I was invited to Riyadh, and I led the crowd's chants after a win.
My first time in Riyadh. I saw Al-Hilal from the inside, stood in front of every trophy, and watched the matches at the stadium with the wonderful Blue Power crowd. I got to know the capital, the culture and the ethics of a people who received me like family. There I started reading a little of the Quran, and my mind began to change: I decided to be someone who brings people together, not someone who feeds rivalry. That trip lit a dream that never went out. That same year, Al Riyadh gave me a full page and Khaleej Times told the story in English.
Growth became consistency: millions of views a month across X, TikTok and Instagram, and an audience past 200 thousand, 90% Saudi. One post alone passed 5.8 million views. And the stories that marked me: my lost wallet returned by a stranger, meals I was never allowed to pay for. Not an audience. Family.
Club World Cup: with Al-Hilal facing Brazilian teams, Globo, Brazil's biggest network, invited me for an interview about the Brazilian Al-Hilal fan and told Brazil my whole story with the Saudi people, calling me a Saudi icon and Al-Hilal 'ambassador'. That same year, Footvolley on Desert became a reality show with teams from four countries.
The World Cup in the United States was the biggest goal of my creator career. I could not go, for financial reasons. The frustration nearly made me delete every account. I watched a handful of matches on TV while everyone waited for content I never posted. I had already started building Fitblox, but I had never given it my full energy. Today I understand: Allah had a plan. There is no other explanation. That frustration became fuel: 15-hour days in the code, with deep faith and trust that everything would move the way it was meant to move. Weeks later, 20 academies were running on the platform. Today it is past 50. The biggest disappointment of my career became the foundation of my biggest project.
Bringing Fitblox to Saudi sport, in Arabic. The full circle: the fan became a builder. And the mission has only begun: impacting the health and the sport of millions of people through technology and sport. Stay close. This story is going to be beautiful.
The purpose
Sport changed my life in the stands of a World Cup. I believe it can change millions more.
My commitment is to health and sport, worldwide: technology that helps academies form athletes, teachers earn a living from what they love, and kids trade screens for training mats.
Brazil taught me sport as joy. Saudi Arabia taught me sport as belonging. My work is the bridge between the two.
The new chapter
Building in public
In 2025 I already changed my content in public: less banter, more substance. The next chapter starts now: building in public. The fan will keep singing, but now you will watch something rarer: a company being built live. The launches, the numbers, the mistakes, the comebacks. Nothing hidden.
Why? Because our generation needs more role models holding a laptop, not only a ball. If a kid from Ceará can be loved in Riyadh and build technology for two continents, then a kid from Jeddah, Cairo or Casablanca can build the next one.
This channel is now a public classroom: entrepreneurship, discipline, sport and pride in hard work. The goal is a generation that is ambitious, educated and successful. Follow to learn with me, not just to cheer with me.
Watch it happen
Moments



The ambitious one
Footvolley on Desert
Footvolley is Brazil's beach art: football skill, volleyball court, bare feet on sand. I created Footvolley on Desert to bring it to Saudi Arabia and the Arab world.
It became a reality show: an international tournament with national teams from Brazil, Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, official uniforms, a Brazil x Morocco final, all filmed and published episode by episode on YouTube. Not a highlight reel: a sport being born on camera, with real athletes and real rivalry.
The plan: grow the sport across the Gulf with Fitblox powering every arena, every class and every ranking. A Brazilian sport, a Saudi home, one platform.












































What I'm building: Fitblox
The management platform for combat sports and fitness academies. Attendance in one tap, subscriptions, belt progressions, an app for athletes and parents, a website and store for every academy.
50+ active academies in Brazil use it every day. 4.8 stars on the app stores. Downloads doubling monthly.
The Arabic version is in progress. The English app is available today.
In the press
Let's talk
Investor, partner, or federation looking at Saudi sport tech? My DMs are open. I reply personally.





