Theago Silva was dying in Russia, but no one knew

Thirteen years ago, Theago Silva has risked dying because of tuberculosis at a Moscow hospital and has been rescued by Russian doctors.

It's been six months alone in one room, fearing he could no longer play soccer. Those were terrible days, but now it's turned into Russia as a star, with the goal of conquering the world.

Not everyone knows that in the successful career of Theago Silva, there was a Moskovite stage that could have cost him his career as football player and life. His fate is linked to Russia that today as then, he can again guarantee a new life, this sports time, under Tete's direction.

In January 2005, Moscow's Dinamo President Alexei Fedorychev has an obsession: win the championship and get the first national success since 1976. Thus, to create a perfect team, he has entrusted powerful mediator Jorge Mendez, who, between January and subsequent summer, to the Russian capital, 12 players, made up of Portuguese and Brazilian talents.

Besides Costinha and Derley, European champions a year ago with Movinho Porto, there are also Seitaridis, the fresh winner of the European Championship held in Portugal, Danny and a new defender named Thiago Silva. But something does not, expensive transfers do not produce the desired effect and, at the end of the 2004/05 season, the whiteman of Oleg Romantsev. The famous former coach of Spartacus and Russia, selected to train the Portuguese colony of Fedorrychev, shut it down to eighth place.

In short, Jorge Mendez's players all fail, while Theago Silva never played. But the trap has been discovered very quickly: all the players who went to Dinamo have been taken without developing proper medical checks, and the Brazilian, who is very good at training, quickly get tired and suggest that something is wrong.

Symptoms do not depart - fever, cough, sweat. At first, the medical staff feels that it is not a severe cold, but a few days later they change their mind and begin to worry about their young man's health. In fact, Theago has been ill with tuberculosis for nine months and doctors themselves have said: "If the disease had been discovered a few weeks later, you would have died”."

But the cure seems worse than the disease, because the medical staff suggests removing most of the right lung to increase Brazilian survival prospects. Theago Silva has disagreed and hopes he can still play soccer. Which he couldn't have done with a mule and a half.

It has spent six very long months in a Russian hospital in a foreign land almost years of light away from Brazil. The player interacts with anxiety, worry, and despair. Then? Then the situation improves with his parents and his fiancée going to Moscow, Theago turns to smiling. Dinamo of Moscow has paid all courses, but has let him leave after the contract's scence in January 2006.

Ricperation and its rise in the football world are already known to all. After moving to Milan in 2009, he became one of the best in the world in his position, comparing himself with the legend Franco Bares before passing through Paris Saint-Germain. But this success has not been verified with nationals.

In South Africa 2010, he was the deputy of Juan and Lucian and then was injured in the World Playbook in Brazil, where he was highly criticised because he refused to throw a penalty in the 1/8th against Chile and then, to take up his next match against Colombia, which has forced him to miss in the match against Germany, the 5-1 of the world's five champions in “Myirazo<1>.

Brazilians have lost faith in him since then. Dunga, who has taken over the place of Luiz Felipe Scolar after Brazil 2014, has gradually removed Silva, who has not even gathered for the 2016 American Cup. The situation has not changed to Tete, with Silva playing only in five matches of Russia's qualifying phase, two of which as a title. Even in the opening match against Switzerland, Marquinhos-Miranda is expected to be the double of the defenders.

As in the best novels and scenarios of Hollywood movies, that guy who could have died in Moscow 13 years ago could regain his country in the title formation and receive a title missing from Brazil since 2002. Theago Silva wants a second birthday.