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Richarlison: The work ethic and humble origins behind Everton forward's rise

The battered, red-brick bus station in the small Brazilian town of Nova Venecia has a story to tell.

Backing on to a murky canal, with its £2 all-you-can-eat buffet and a drunk passed out on the forecourt, it marks the start point of Richarlison's journey to the Premier League.

Aged 17 and disheartened by serial rejection, it was from here that he left home on an 11-hour, 600km trip to Belo Horizonte, with borrowed boots and no money for a return ticket.

It was 2014. Trials at Avai and Figueirense had gone unrewarded, his beloved national team had been humiliated on home soil at the World Cup.