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Guinea-Bissau to Batley: how England found their Vieira
January 1 2018, 12:01am,
Under the Skin of the game
Leeds United starlet has a name that turns heads and talent to live up to the billing, writes Rick Broadbent
Ronaldo Vieira gets his strength from his mother, who gave him his famous name after the final of the 1998 World Cup
Ronaldo Vieira gets his strength from his mother, who gave him his famous name after the final of the 1998 World CupLorne Campbell for The Times
On the coldest days in Yorkshire, with a family tragedy behind him, sooty black buildings all around and an uncertain future ahead, Ronaldo Vieira wondered what he was doing. There was the time his twin brother, Romario, cried because his hands were frozen and the afternoon when his coach warned that the opposing team would try to hurt him. The coach was right. Fancy monikers were red rags to bullish Tykes and the young starlet did not play again for three months.
“You would get clattered every week,†Vieira says at Leeds United’s training ground. “There was one rival team that would try to get me out of the game and this time they did. It was my groin.â€
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