5 facts you (probably) didn’t know about Watford’s Heurelho Gomes

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Watford’s Gomes was part of the Brazil squad that competed at the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa.

However; the shot stopper didn’t make an appearance, instead he was left on the substitute’s bench for all five fixtures as former Queens Park Rangers ‘keeper Julio Cesar deputised between the sticks, until Brazil were knocked out by the Netherlands (2-1) in the quarter-finals.