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

Goal scorer to Goal stopper

During his childhood, Gomes used to play up front for his school team.

At the age of 14, at Teotonio Brandao Vilela secondary school, the Watford shot stopper played as a forward.

It wasn’t until his move to local side Sete Lagoas, after a growth spurt, that Gomes was instructed to protect his side’s goalposts, rather than attack them at the other end of the pitch.

The rest, they say, is history.