Sergio Raimundo had the luxury of working with Manchester City superstars Ederson, Bernardo Silva and Joao Cancelo long before Pep Guardiola got his hands on them.
Throw in Andre Gomes, Helder Costa and Ivan Cavaleiro and the Benfica U19 side that the current Hibs assistant coached just over a decade ago reads like a who’s who of Portuguese football.
Raimundo has no shame admitting that he learned more as a young coach from those players than he himself imparted on the soon-to-become sensations.
It helped set the 39-year-old on a worldwide footballing journey stretching from Senegal to Brazil and Australia before finally landing in Leith a little over two months ago alongside Nick Montgomery.
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