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The World Cup's most unlikely hero! Roberto 'Pico' Lopes is the product of an Irish holiday romance and almost missed his call-up via LinkedIn fearing it was spam. Now the officer worker-turned-defender has shut out Spain ⊕

found 2026 › Jun › 16 (Tue) @ 11:00 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

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NATHAN SALT: When the dust settles on Roberto Lopes' story, he'll look back on a tale that had the potential to be full of what ifs. What if, while at college, he had not set up a LinkedIn profile?