How football 'art' helped Lille return to the big time

Lille's return to the Champions League after a seven-year absence is thanks, in part, to a little bit of football"art."

The talented sculptor in question is Luis Campos, the club's technical director who has molded a relegation-threatened squad into one of France's finest.Last year, the Portuguese traveled a staggering 280,000 miles around the globe in search of new talent for Lille's ambitious project, that he hopes will see it become a regular on European football's biggest stage.

Why Nicolas Pepe was destined for greatness 02:41Such is the nature of modern football -- a phenomenon that sees managers fired and entire projects scrapped after a few bad games -- the pair perhaps would have been expected to tear everything down and start again.

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