The most exciting teenagers in the world right now aren’t exactly waiting in the shadows, are they? Gone are the days of players making their name in their early 20s. We know the names of nearly every breakout star under 21 worth watching. The Messi/Ronaldo era is all but over, the credits rolling in retirement leagues for two former GOATs.
The race to replicate and reflect them is well and truly on. The next generation are here. And here they are.
Every season, we scour the globe, from top-level academy compilations to the flickery tapes from South America of street-ballers riding tackles from seasoned ankle-crunchers, to compile our definitive list of the teenagers you need to be keeping a close eye on. But unlike most, we’re not ranking these from the worst to best. That seems counterintuitive, given that some of these stars are yet to taste senior football, while others are the cornerstones of their respective institutions.
As ever, we’re going purely from the heart of how much these players excite us. Whether it’s an attacker so young that they could only possibly modelled their game from YouTube clips of the legends they ape, or a defensive beast so mature that they could redefine the position, every one of these players moves us in one way or another. So behold, our wonderkids to watch for the coming campaign.
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