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Shon Weissman is heading to Valladolid. “Ronaldo loves him״, Guillem Balague tweeted. Ronaldo loves Shon Weissman. No matter how many times I read it, it doesn’t make sense. Even in a world that embraces meteoric rises, those twists in Shon’s career still seemed too crazy.
WHY?>
WHY?>
Life: The first time Weissman (24) - slept on a bed, an actual bed, he was 18-yrs-old. His father wasn’t around, his mother slept on the couch in a 1-bedroom apt, and Shon and his brother had a mattress, on the floor. That's how they live, until he was 18. Amazing. >
When he was 14 he went to work with his mother, cleaning houses. She made aprox 700 euros per month. In those days, His dream was to buy her perfume for her 50th birthday. Later he would buy her a house. And for himself - a bed to sleep on.>
Football: In 2016 he played for a bottom of the table Israeli team and scored zero goals. There were no top-tier clubs interested in him that summer, so he went on and signed for a second tier team. Then he got injured and didn’t play for six months. he thought about retiring. >
Two years ago Shon returned to the top division and scored 3 goals on the 2017/18 season. The following year he finally got a crack at his home team of Maccabi Haifa, scored 8 goals and when his contract ended, he somehow got an offer from Austria. >
Throughout his 1st season there he scored 30 goals, more than he did in his entire career thus far. He finished in the top-10 on Europe’s Golden Boot run, broke an Israeli record for a player playing abroad. It was less than a year ago that he had made his National team debut. >
God: When times got hard, Weissman became a believer. He told me that god directed him to the path he is on today. Not everyone must believe it, but it’s hard to find another logical way to explain his story. Two years ago almost nobody knew him and now "Ronaldo loves him". Crazy
