A goalkeeper who became a global sensation at the World Cup has arrived in Chile to start the next chapter of one of football's unlikeliest careers.

Vozinha — the Cape Verde international whose real name barely registers next to the nickname the world knows him by — landed in Santiago on a Sunday and joined his new Colo Colo teammates in training two days later, according to BBC Sport. Chile's football federation, the ANFP, had already approved his request to wear "Vozinha" rather than a surname on the back of his Colo Colo shirt, clearing that hurdle on Friday, 31 July, as reported by CNN en Español and ESPN Deportes. Colo Colo had formally asked the federation for an exception so the single name could appear on the jersey.

What turned a goalkeeper from a tiny island nation into a household name was a single tournament. Vozinha became a cult hero when Cape Verde claimed their first-ever World Cup point, holding Spain to a draw. He was named in FIFA's team of the tournament — the best eleven players across the entire competition — and his Instagram following ballooned from roughly 50,000 to nearly 30 million. A newly discovered species of sea slug was even named after him.

His career path makes the World Cup fairy tale even harder to believe. Before Colo Colo, Vozinha's club career took him through Slovakia, Angola, Moldova, Cyprus, and the Portuguese second division with Chaves — the kind of journeyman's résumé that usually flies under the radar rather than producing a tournament icon.

Colo Colo is no ordinary landing spot. The Santiago-based club is the most successful team in Chile's Primera División, with 34 league titles and 14 Copa Chile trophies to its name. For a goalkeeper who has spent his career on football's margins, stepping into a stadium that expects titles every season is a different kind of pressure entirely.

Vozinha himself described joining Colo Colo as the highlight of his club career, according to BBC Sport. That says something for a man who has lifted Cape Verde's profile on the world stage and has a sea slug carrying his name.

For Chilean fans, the arrival of a World Cup team-of-the-tournament goalkeeper is a statement of intent from a club that already sits at the summit of the domestic game. For Vozinha, it is the biggest stage of his club life — and a chance to prove that one extraordinary summer was the beginning, not the peak.