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Simeone Di Bradini (also known as "SDB") is a Starblaydi former football player and manager, now the assistant manager and occasional player for The Holy Empire national football team. His career as a striker took him across three countries at club level and to four World Cups, finishing as both his country's record goalscorer (44) and appearance maker (84).
He holds the distinction of scoring Starblaydia's first ever goal in international football, during the third Under-21 World Cup, as well as having scored five times across four separate World Cup tournaments. From the dugout, Di Bradini managed the Starblaydia Under-21s and the senior side to tournament victories.
He is one of the few players in history to have played for two different national football teams - not including those merged by national events - in his career, having also taken to the pitch during for The Holy Empire. He provided the cross for the only goal of the World Cup 48 Final, finally writing his name into football legend as a World Cup winner.
Away from the pitch, he was also the President of the World Cup Committee between World Cup 25 and 27, the first Starblaydi to hold the position. He is widely regarded as by far the best Starblaydi player of his generation, as well as one of the best players in the world during his career. He is also, arguably, the most famous footballer in world history, particularly since the Starblaydi Football Association renamed the Under-21 World Cup as the Di Bradini Cup and named a newly-built Starblaydi national stadium after him.
The Presidency
Before World Cup 25, an election was held amongst the members of the World Cup Committee to find a new President to replace the outgoing one from Bedistan. The four candidates - as nominated in a previous ballot - were Trevor Belmore of Druida, Sani Luvo of Kaze Progressa, Kansu Kiru of Rejistania and Simeone Di Bradini of Starblaydia.
Simeone won in somewhat of a landslide, polling over two-thirds of votes cast and served for a single term, spanning three Cups, and was succeeded by another Starblaydi candidate, Giovanni Lopez, to the role.
He was also in Kaza, Kaze Progressa - along with Starblaydi Lord-Protector Tiberius Starblayde to watch his country win World Cup 25 against the Orange-Blues of Rejistania.
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