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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Manchester United Sign Homeless World Cup Star

A remarkable story coming out of Old Trafford:

Manchester United have spent £7.4m to sign Tiago Manuel Dias Correia, otherwise known as Bébé, a relatively unknown 20-year-old from the Portuguese club Vitória de Guimarães, the Guardian can reveal. The deal was finalised today, with the player becoming the eighth senior striker at the club.

United have paid the buyout clause to release Bébé – was raised in an orphanage after spending part of his childhood on the streets and has represented Portugal in the Homeless World Cup – from his five-year contract at Guimarães only five weeks after he joined the club from Estrela da Amadora in the Portuguese third division. (The Guardian)


As far as I am aware this makes Bébé the first graduate of the Homeless World Cup to make it to one of the big European leagues and certainly the first to join a club of United's stature.

Dreams, it seems, can come true.

* The 2010 Homeless World Cup kicks off in Rio next month

Posted by Tom Hall at 08:16
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