Brazil-born player makes unlikely trip to Olympics
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2012 by YAHOO Sport
Renan Bressan didn't see this one coming as he was growing up in Brazil with dreams of becoming a football star.
He never could have thought that he would be playing in the Olympics, or imagined that he would be defending the colors of a country like Belarus.
The idea would have seemed even more absurd after doctors told him that he probably wouldn't play football again following a life-threatening injury caused by an elbow to his head during practice as a teenager. Or when his career nearly ended a few years later because an agent lied to him and forced him into a bad deal.
Things turned out just fine for the 23-year-old Bressan, who is at the London Games trying to lead Belarus to the second round of the men's tournament.
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