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Nani lifts lid on his journey from begging on Lisbon streets to becoming Man Utd superstar

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09.07.2020 - 17:21

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Former Manchester United winger Nani has revealed how he went from begging for food on the streets of Lisbon to become an Old Trafford superstar.

The Portuguese international endured a tough childhood, living in slum conditions that often left him on the verge of starvation.

Football became Nani's salvation. First he signed for Sporting Lisbon and then he followed in Cristiano Ronaldo's footsteps by moving to United in a £23million in the summer of 2007.

But in a written article for the website 'The Players' Tribune,' Nani, now aged 33 and playing for MLS side Orlando City, described how his mother moved him and his eight siblings into a ramshackle one bedroomed house with her new boyfriend when the children's father left them to fend for

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