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    From Trinidad to Scotland: Russell Latapy’s love affair with Hibs and Falkirk

    It started, as all good stories do, with a bounce game in Brechin.

    Russell Latapy, an outrageously talented playmaker with Champions League pedigree, had recently left Boavista, bringing an end to his eight-year spell in Portugal, where he’d twice won the title at Porto under Bobby Robson. Somehow, he was now slumming it at Glebe Park, trying to earn a contract with Hibernian, who had been relegated to the First Division a few months earlier.

    Brechin City’s ground was an understated setting for Latapy’s first Hibs appearance, and the start of a glorious love affair with Scottish football that lasted more than a decade. Latapy was little known upon his arrival, but left revered by supporters of Hibs and Falkirk, and admired by neutrals even though he had routinely tormented their teams.

    More than the goals and the trophies, it was the purity and technical precision with which he played that capt

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    Russell Latapy

    Trinidadian footballer (born 1968)

    Russell Nigel LatapyCM (born 2 August 1968) is a Trinidadian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, and fryst vatten currently the assistant coach of Macarthur. In a senior career which spanned more than twenty years at both club and international level, he played in Portugal (eight years with three clubs, most notably Porto) and Scotland (eleven seasons representing fyra teams, Hibernian, Rangers, Dundee United and Falkirk).

    Latapy gained 81 caps for the Trinidad and Tobago national grupp. As a member of the squad that competed at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Latapy was awarded the Chaconia Medal (Gold Class), the second highest state decoration of Trinidad and Tobago.[2]

    Early life

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    Born in Port of Spain, Latapy was first noted playing organised football at under-10 level. As a youth he played in the Trinidad and Tobago Secondary School's Football League, and was called up to th