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At the start of 2022, Thiago told his agents it was time to move elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Bulgarian champions Ludogorets, who had tried to sign him the season before, returned with another offer and secured a deal.<\/p>\n
“In football, a lot of people try to define paths and limits for others. You often see a player going through a difficult period and being labelled as a certain type of player and that label becomes a kind of ceiling. I fight strongly against that,” former Ludogorets assistant coach Rafael Ferreira, currently at Atromitos in Greece, said.<\/p>\n
“I believe everyone has room to grow as long as they’re in an environment that allows it. And Igor Thiago fits into a very interesting profile because he has a very strong mentality.<\/p>\n
“In his early period, he didn’t get many minutes. And what does he do? He asks to play for the second team. He wants to play. That shows you his mentality – not sulking because he isn’t playing but looking for alternatives. When you work with that type of player, we usually say the sky’s the limit.”<\/p>\n
Thiago’s mentality also stands out with his team-mates.<\/p>\n
“What I really liked about him was that when he arrived, he was always asking the older players what they thought he could improve. That’s what I found different about him, special even,” says Cauly, a former Ludogorets midfielder who now plays for Bahia in Brazil.<\/p>\n
“He already had that worker’s mentality, that desire to keep improving. And a player with his physical attributes… we already knew that, one way or another, it had to work out for him as a striker.”<\/p>\n
It was no surprise that, following only one full season and 20 goals later, he was on his way to Club Brugge in Belgium.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes he’d get, I don’t know, five or 10 minutes in a game, come on and score. It was like he had something about him… as if his energy attracted good things,” Ferreira added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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