Excitement is slowly beginning to build as, strange as it seems, we're under a month away from the start of the first-ever World Cup to take place in the middle of the European football season.
Seventy years ago, 38-year-old fledgling Roberto Nascimento da Silva Lazaró departed his hometown Medellín to begin his quest to become a Football Manager. Most the kids he grew up with on the streets scoffed and mocked, but Robinho Lazaró very much had the last laugh.
José Mourinho may consider himself "the special one" but there was no doubting that Roberto Nascimento da Silva Lazaró was "the great one."
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Life in Canada was off to a solid if unspectacular start for Robinho Lazaró at FC Edmonton. He'd led the side that finished bottom of the league last season but was massive favourites for the title to challenging at the top of the table mid-way through this campaign.
Brazil's Série A to the Canadian Premier League isn't the sort of move you see too many managers make. But Robinho Lazaró was all about doing things differently in his quest to complete Aventuras Américas.
While others in his situation might turn to less than legal routes to make money, Robinho Lazaró's sights were firmly set on the unlikely pipedream of becoming a football manager.
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