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Unusually for a Portuguese player of such potential, he had not been part of the famed academies of Benfica, Sporting or Porto when he was a young teenager.

But it was not just that.

Jota was still paying to play at local club Gondomar when he was 16.



It was only when I was transferred to Pacos [de Ferreira in 2013] that I started to receive some money."

Talking to Vasco Seabra, his coach at Pacos, he provided an insight into just how far Jota came to go from the fringes of Portuguese football to playing in a Champions League final.

Seabra even had to write to the Portuguese FA just to get them to come see him.

"I remember sending an email to our national team U19 coach." Seabra just knew.

He scored the fifth goal in the Estadio do Dragao that night, just days after turning 20.

A career crackling with possibility.

He arrived in English football the following summer, joining Wolves, the club I supported as a boy, even moving in next door to my aunt and uncle.

He was an instant hit, scoring 17 goals in that title-winning season in the Championship, clearly a cut above the competition alongside Ruben Neves.

At the beginning, some had suggested these Portuguese kids might not be able to cope with the cut and thrust of life in England's second tier, particularly based in a less than prosperous city in the West Midlands.

He embraced it.

Upon promotion to the Premier League, it took a little time to adjust but a change of position ignited his season that December, scoring a winner against Chelsea before going on to get his first hat-trick in English football in a dramatic 4-3 defeat of Leicester.

He scored in Molineux wins over Manchester United two weeks apart.

We knew he didn't play in the formation as a wide forward, but the way he interpreted that role did make him look more like a Liverpool wide forward."

In five seasons at Liverpool, Jota won everything there was to win in English football, scoring 65 goals in 182 appearances.
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