Thiago Silva has a unique  chance to lead Brazil for World Cup 2018 glory after overcoming dangerous illness

Brazil are now favourites to win the World Cup glory with Thiago Silva having a chance to lead his side to the win. The 33-year-old , who had a loan spell with Dynamo Moscow back in 2005 contracted tuberculosis and for six months kept fighting for his life. Silva’s former coach Ivo Wortmann remembered. "I was devastated when I saw him. One day, the doctors told me Thiago had a hole in his lung and had to go through surgery. The risk of death was real," Now again in Moscow he has a chance to end a remarkable football story in Russia. Brazil will take on Belgium in quarter-final on Friday.

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