Tottenham Star Opens Up About 'Choosing Football Over Crime' in Brazilian Upbringing

Tottenham winger Lucas Moura has opened up about how football helped him to avoid a criminal lifestyle, unlike his some of his friends in his home city of Sao Paulo. The Brazilian endured a difficult upbringing in a deprived community of Brazil's most populous city, but said putting his focus into football rather than crime in his younger years has now paid dividends. "It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life," he... Via All the latest breaking football news, transfer rumours, analysis, and match reports - 90min http://www.90min.com/