One of Brazil’s finest talents, for many the brilliance of Edmundo on the pitch was matched only by his madness off it

One of Brazil’s finest talents, for many the brilliance of Edmundo on the pitch was matched only by his madness off it
It’s incredible to think that a man born in 1970s Yugoslavia could become a 21st-century Brazilian idol, but that’s exactly what Dejan Petković achieved
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Illustration by Red Star Liverpool. Find more of his great work here Modern football has created a purgatory. A place where players that fail to live up to their initial hype are consigned…