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Abandoned by his parents, then signed by Manchester United... but leaving was the best moment of his life
straight to your inbox every day for free"I had eight years in an orphanage."There, I did not like football."But my friends always wanted to play and I had no choice but to join in."To hear such a comment from a professional footballer is surprising and humbling in equal measure, let alone to hear it from someone who ended up playing for Manchester United.But how did the same man then end up describing leaving Old Trafford as "the best moment of my life" when it all went wrong?Fans might laugh and remember him as a flop, but there is a hard-hitting and human side to this story.This is Bebe's story.Tiago Manuel Dias Correia, more commonly known as Bebe, enjoyed the ultimate rags to riches tale.From a player who starred for Portugal at the
