Cliffen was sitting at his home in Kerala, South Carolina, South India, when a friend asked him if he was going to the World Cup?
'Absolute', he replied, 'I probably must travel to Russia to see great shows'.
This is in August last year but Frances did not have any idea how to go to Russia where they lived.
Francis is a math freelance teacher in India and earns $ 40 a day.
'I realized that I did not have enough money to travel to Russia and stay there for a month.' Then I asked myself what could be the cheapest source of travel? The answer was a bicycle.
Frances' friends did not believe them, but till then they had made their mind.
Frances started his journey on February 23 this year. He traveled from Kerala to Dubai, then he reached Iran via ferry to Dubai, where the capital of Russia was still 4,200 kilometers away.
For this, the reward of this journey was to see his hero and Argentine's leading footballer Lionel Messi.