Introducing football's next generation -- Star Wars: The Last Jedi-style

We all know who dominates the football Bronson Kaufusi Authentic Jersey galaxy right now: the likes of Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Paul Pogba. But who's leading the next generation? Drawing inspiration from the upcoming "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," we used the Force to select the best young players primed to rule the sport in a few years' time, if not sooner. We give you: the ESPN FC / Star Wars under-21 starting XI.

At 20, you'd expect Gabriel Jesus to be a lightweight nuisance at Manchester City. Instead, the striker is a fearless, aggressive bundle of energy similar to Kylo Ren. And the parallels don't end there: Jesus plays football at a club much like the First Order, given their deep coffers and ambitious plans to dominate the galaxy.

You'd have expected Jesus to leave Brazil and find a traditional halfway house of, say, Portugal or the Eredivisie, but he went straight to City, slotting seamlessly into Pep Guardiola's high-energy, multipurpose think tank of an attacking unit. With the ball, Jesus has been efficient and ruthless. Without it, he's much the same.
The U.S. are the biggest footballing nation never to have produced an era-defining individual talent in the men's game. But the search for a galaxy-inspiring Jedi Knight in the mold of Luke Skywalker might be over.
Christian Pulisic's complicated move to Borussia Dortmund at 16 was, in his words, to experience an "intensity and humility" that he felt the U.S. developmental system could Joe Gilliam Youth jersey not provide. It was a perfect marriage: an intelligent, gifted, http://www.officialangelsprostore.com/Reggie_Jackson_Jersey driven teenager taken under the http://www.officiallaramsauthentic.com/Robert-Quinn-Jersey.html wing of a club who know how to treat their young talent.
Now, much like Skywalker's journey, Pulisic faces a hard road of pressure and potentially crushing expectations -- at a time when U.S. soccer's need for a talisman has never been more urgent, no less. Can Pulisic help the Americans get back to the World Cup in 2022? This much we know: the Force is strong with him.
The emphasis with young forwards is often about pace, dribbling and trickery. Marco Asensio has all of those skills, but that's not why he's caught our eye. The Real Madrid player has all the makings to become football's equivalent of Captain Phasma, commander of the First Order stormtroopers who is all http://www.officialvancouvercanucks.com/Adidas-Kirk-Mclean-Jersey about taking a direct route to problem-solving.
Asensio's season so far has been peppered with some of the crispest connections a young boot has ever made with a ball. Real Madrid's emphatic Spanish Super Cup win over Barcelona was crowned, home and away, by two thunderous Asensio strikes: the first a bullet into the top corner at the Nou Camp, and the second a 30-yard Exocet missile that Josh Ferguson Womens Jersey Marc-Andre ter Stegen thought better about trying to stop.
Dele Alli is the type of player who could rule the galaxy one day. But will his cockiness send him down a path to becoming football's version of Supreme Leader Snoke? It takes some serious self-belief to make the jump from League One to the Premier League, let alone at 19, but that's one of the things that immediately strikes you about Alli: he's more about poise than power, ghosting in at the back post rather than hammering in from 30 yards.
Even his on-field misdemeanours have a snide stealthiness about them. Such is Alli's innate capacity for Dark Side-style showmanship that, despite a recent dip in form, he still had it in him to nutmeg the referee in the north London derby.
"Fearless" is a word brandished all too easily with young players, but there hasn't been a moment -- from MK Dons to becoming a first choice for England -- when it seemed that self-doubt had begun to creep into Alli's game.
If there's one young player who looks capable of mastering the Force, just as Rey is trying to do in http://www.officialsfalconsauthenticshop.com/Robert_Alford_Jersey_Cheap "The Last Jedi," it's Kylian Mbappe. Even in the accelerated reality of modern football, there might never again be a more transformative 18 months John Sullivan Womens Jersey in the career of a teenager. That's all it took for Mbappe, from Monaco debut to Paris Saint-Germain committing €180 million for his services, to become the talk of the footballing galaxy. He'll still be just 19 at the 2018 World Cup, by which time there is a danger for taking his awesome repertoire for granted. Plenty of young attackers could match him for pace, but few if any others seem to be able to make time stand still when they see the whites of the goalkeeper's eyes.

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