The former Ballon d’Or winner is adamant he can lead his new team to success. But it’s arguable whether he has the supporting cast to succeed
Lake Sylvan Park is more than 4,350 miles from Madrid and Milan in geographical terms and several light years in terms of soccer culture. Yet here in rural Seminole County, surrounded by horse-racing stables hoping to produce the next Derby champion or Preakness winner, Brazil’s former World Player of the Year (he beat some kid called Lionel Messi to the award in 2007) is looking to lead his own group of potential thoroughbreds.
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known to most of the soccer world as Kaká, has left the likes of Real Madrid and Milan behind and is now a Lion, plying his trade for Orlando City as they take their first steps at MLS level this year. It is the kind of challenge not even David Beckham tackled on his famous foray across the pond, as he headed to Los Angeles and US soccer’s equivalent of the New York Yankees.
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