Published: 13:26, 6 November 2025 | Updated: 13:26, 6 November 2025

When Hearts snapped up Claudio Braga for £400,000 from the little-known Aalesunds FK in the Norwegian second division, it's unlikely anyone would have predicted that his name would be renowned among football fans across the globe a few short months later. 

Nor would many have tipped Hearts, without a league title in 40 years, to be sitting pretty ahead of Glaswegian giants Celtic and Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premier League.

Yet football's a funny old game and, as we near the festive period, this is indeed the case. 

Braga's electric start to life in Edinburgh has seen him net 9 goals in 16 games, earning him the adulation of his new Scottish supporters. 

Some players, and good ones at that, wait years for their names to be sung on the terraces - but not Hearts' new hero. 

To the tune of Queen's iconic 1984 track Radio Ga Ga, his chant of 'all we need is Claudio Braga, Claudio Braga, Claudio Braga' has been dubbed 'the...