Chelsea's latest Brazilian signing has shown in patches just what he is capable of, and given time Oscar has the potential to become one of the most exciting players in the English Premier League and Europe - something he has always wanted to be ever since he was a kid.

After scoring two wonderful goals in the Champions League against Juventus, Oscar has seen a lot more game time, after Roberto Di Matteo initially decided to bring on the 21-year-old gradually.

The Brazilian playmaker was just like any other young kid in the South American country, which constantly produces the best footballers in the world - learning his trade on the streets. "Since I was a little boy, everybody in Americana thought I would become a professional footballer," he told Chelsea magazine. "I started, as most Brazilians do, by playing on the street.

"In Americana, there were maybe some courts or little pitches that we would play on sometimes. However, from the age of five or six, we would play almost all the time on the street after school.

"My father used to play football, although not professionally, and that is when most boys take up the game for the first time in Brazil - their father goes to play a game and all his friends and their families go as well, so everybody plays.

"Since I was very little, everybody would say that I had something special and that I could make it in football.

"Obviously, with my father playing football, most of my family liked the game as well and we all followed the same path as young boys.

"That's when my older cousins would start noticing that I had some talent and, because everybody was saying this, I wanted to try my best to achieve something."

Oscar idolized all the Brazilian international players plying their trade in Europe, wanting to become like them some day, and one player in particular, always caught his eye. "The most important for me was Kaka, because he was at Sao Paulo, where I started my career," he added.

"So, he was the biggest idol for us there. Also, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo -- they were the top players at the time when I started as a kid and they were already playing in Europe with top clubs.

"These are the players that we all tried to emulate. We tried to see what they would do on the pitch and then try to do it as well as them when we played. Now, I am going to work hard to do as well as they did in Europe."