FourFourTwo's 59 Best Under-21 Wonderkids in the World
Feast your eyes on the future: FourFourTwo.com's list of the brightest bulbs in world football...
Few things in football make the fan’s heart surge as much as the arrival of a wonderkid. A bright-eyed new talent who might take on the world, quite possibly dragging your hopeless bunch of cloggers along with him as he starts on the path to global domination of the greatest sport known to humankind.
Similarly, few things in football feel better than knowing about something – or someone – that other people don’t. That’s why we at FourFourTwo have long brought you the Boy’s A Bit Special and Talentspotter finds, alerting you to the finest fledgling face-fuzz wearers in football.
And so, here we bring you the stars of tomorrow, and in some cases today. You’ll know some of the names higher up the list – but there's plenty of others you won't. So read on...
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Joe was the Deputy Editor at FourFourTwo until 2022, having risen through the FFT academy and been on the brand since 2013 in various capacities.
By weekend and frustrating midweek night he is a Leicester City fan, and in 2020 co-wrote the autobiography of former Foxes winger Matt Piper – subsequently listed for both the Telegraph and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards.