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5 MLS wonderkids you should know something about

Alphonso Davies, 17 years old, Vancouver Whitecaps By Fabrizio…
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Scouting time: 4 U21 players to follow in English football

Ryan Sessegnon, 18 May 2000, Fulham by Daniele V. Morrone Not…
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5 key steps when you find a new talent by Richard Bredice

Richard Bredice is first-team opposition analyst at Manchester…
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5 key steps when you find a new talent by Bruno Costa

Bruno Costa is head of scouting at San Jose Earthquakes. The…
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Scouting time: 4 U21 players to follow in Bundesliga

Leon Bailey By Dario Saltari Leon Bailey seems like a very…
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Scouting time: 4 U21 players to follow in Italian Serie A

L'Ultimo Uomo analyzed for Wyscout Blog the most surprising…
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Gianluca Scamacca: a young multi-purpose Primavera striker

In modern football, where formations and positions tend to disappear more and more and where the teams take on different tactical structures within the same match depending on the game play situations, multi-purpose players are increasingly in demand. Knowing how to do different things and in different areas of the pitch has become fundamental if you don't want to miss the boat in terms of tactical game play evolution. Of the young Italian forwards, perhaps the one closest to truly becoming a multi-purpose player, is Sassuolo's Gianluca Scamacca.
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Riccardo Marchizza: Primavera TIM promising Italian talent

Riccardo Marchizza is one of the most promising Italian centre fullbacks around. He has excellent physical and technical qualities: He has a solid build, almost two metres tall, combined with a highly accurate left foot that often manages to find the back of the net. In three years on the youth team, he has already scored 16 goals, a few of which on free kicks..

Alessandro Rossi: characteristics of a U19 top-scorer

Alessandro Rossi promises to continue the long tradition of Italian centre forwards who combine effort and substance. He hasn't scored since 21 January, exactly one month ago, and yet he is still the top goalscorer in the Italian U19 Group A, and he has maintained an average of 1 goal..

Viktor Tsygankov: a young talent

The wings of the old days are no more, the ones that dribbled and always created numerical superiority. Anyone who agrees with this statement has never seen Viktor Tsygankov at work. The Dinamo Kiev nineteen year-old has already shown his skills in this part of the season and in Champions League on the team coached by Serhij Rebrov..

Amine Harit young, gifted and french

At nineteen years of age, Amine Harit's playing style does not hinge on dribbling, although he has excellent leg work and top shelf technique at high speed. His coach at Nantes, René Girard, does not consider him a young player to adapt little by little, but rather a footballer capable of covering all the positions in the midfield, reliable enough to be..

Yeferson Soteldo: great dribbling skills, balance and control

Yeferson Soteldo, right or left wing for Zamora, born in 1997, already with playing time on the Venezuelan national team in the match against Colombia that qualified them for the World Cup in Russia. Nimble in short sprints, but with good stamina, excellent ball handling skills even in the spaces, maintaining remarkable control of the ball..

Gabriel Jesus: Flexibility, technique and great finishing on goal

Born on 3 April 1997, Gabriel Jesus already has astonishing numbers. 54 goals in 48 matches in 2013 and 37 in 22 in 2014 at a youth level (Paulista Under 17 league). In 2015, the first season he played at Palmeiras, he scored 7 goals in 37 matches. And, above all, 15 goals in 18 games for the current season..

Ante Ćorić: Ball control, through passes and dribbling

His time has come!!! At eleven years of age Ante Ćorić tried out for Chelsea and Bayern Munich and both teams would have been happy to have him in their youth line up, but he surprised everyone by deciding to transfer to Red Bull Salzburg. Now Napoli, Fiorentina, Milan, Liverpool and other European superpowers seem to be taking an interest..

Nemanja Mihajlović: Speed, ball control and excellent resistance

Nemanja Mihajlović (born in Niš on 19 January 1996) is a Serbian footballer, a midfielder for Partizan Belgrade. He made his début on the Rad first team in the 2012-2013 season against Donji Srem Pećinci. He scored the first goal of his senior career against Borac Čačak. During the winter transfer window, Mihajlović was scouted by the French club AS Saint-Étienne.

Aïssa Mandi: A complete centre back

Aïssa Mandi (Châlons-en-Champagne, 21 October 1991) is an Algerian naturalised French footballer, defender for Reims, French Ligue 1 and the Algerian national team. He is a right footed centre back but he also adapts well with his left.

Hakim Ziyech: A real number 10

Hakim Ziyech, born in 1993, pure talent, already a technical point of reference on the Moroccan National team, as well as on Twente, quickly rose to idol status for fans of the Dutch team. Last year he ended his rookie season in a Tukkers jersey with 11 goals and the most assists of anyone in the entire league.

Youssef Ait Bennasser

This season, although playing in Ligue 2 with Nancy, Youssef Ait Bennasser has already managed to attract the interest of many big European clubs: 21 matches with 2 goals and 2 assists in 2014-15, this year he has already seen playing time in 21 matches and scored one goal.

Dawid Kownacki: A once-in-a-decade talent

At just 8 years of age he joined Lech Poznań, the club he still belongs to. In the Poznań team's youth sector, Dawid demonstrated exceptionally consistent scoring. From the Under 15 to the Under 19, (with 5 goals in three games in Under 18), he quickly became an irreplaceable pivot point for all of the Polish youth selections.

Blas Riveros: Speed, technique and the will to succeed

Raised in a loving, but humble family, he began with Olimpia de Itauguá as a forward and after just six months he caught the eye of the Olimpia di Asunción youth manager who brought him into the under 14 team when he was just 12...

Marlos Moreno speed and versatility

Since Guardiola was announced, of 11 matches Manchester City has won only 3. This Premier League derby did not have a clear leader in terms of quantity/quality. The similar average position of both blocks of the teams only changed a little when in the 2nd half Manchester United defended the result on their own half.