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Falcao's soccer love comes from his father and is undiminished after two decades of scoring goals

"My first memories from my childhood are being with him inside a dressing room, at training sessions, him taking me by the hand," Radamel Falcao says. His is a family story, which makes it a football story too, told through photographs and in the quiet, almost gentle voice that characterises him, a hint of timidity in the man they call "The Tiger."

It is not just that each stage of Falcao's remarkable career is captured on camera all the way back to Lanceros Boyacá -- from River Plate to Porto, from Atletico Madrid to Manchester United, from Chelsea to Galatasaray and now, at Rayo Vallecano -- it is that each stage of his childhood is too, charted from club to club.