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Armando is a minor recurring character featured in the Apple TV+ series, Ted Lasso, and a football player for West Ham United F.C..

Armando is a striker for West Ham United, his number is 10 just like Zava from AFC Richmond. West Ham is owned by Rupert Mannion after he bought it and then he hired Nathan Shelley as the head coach and manager of the club. Nate is a very strict coach and likes to berate his players, even calling them dumb.

Nate is overseeing training with his West Ham squad and notices a player named Cesar not performing well. He calls the player over and makes him stand behind the line, calling out to other teammates that this is the “dum dum line” that may be used in future. Armando seems bothered by the way Nate calling his teammate dumb,

Training

Armando cringes to hear Nate calling his friend 'dumb'

Nate then calls Armando to perform in the pitch and tells him not to join his friend at the "dum dum line".

During the match against Richmond, Thierry Zoreaux manages to hold up West Ham's goals until he can't when Armando scores 2 goals late in the half, to give West Ham a 2-0 lead at halftime.

The second half of the match, every Richmond player plays very dirty and aggressively. Many of them attack or provokes the West Ham players, even physically fight them. When Armando is dribbling the ball and is going to score the goal, the Richmond captain Isaac McAdoo grabs his kit from behind and pull him to the ground hard, practically slamming him.

Isaac's action prompts many West Ham players from the side to runs over to him and a fight ensued with the Richmond backup players. Armando has to fight off Jan Maas who is taller than him and keeps him away from him.

West Ham wins the match 4-1 and when the players are celebrating, Armando takes off his kit and offers it to Zava, which he refuses. Armando seems in disbelief seeing the dejected Zava rejects his kit as per football tradition usually they would exchange uniforms.

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