Olaleye Idowu
Argentina and Barcelona legend, Lionel Messi, has named the 10 players he sees as future stars.
The legendary attacker has players from Chelsea and Liverpool in his list.
As part of an Adidas campaign, the 8-time Ballon d’Or winner was asked to name the players he deems the next big stars in the game.
The Inter Miami goal king, partnering with Adidas Football for the ‘Messi+10: Season 2’ campaign, named his 10 best rising stars.
He named Liverpool’s Rio Ngumoha, Chelsea’s Andrey Santos, Kendry Paez, also of Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder, Brajan Gruda.
Others are Nico Paz (Como), Rodrigo Mora (Porto), Mika Godts (Ajax Amsterdam), and Kader Meite (Stade Rennes).
He named two female players, Barcelona’s Clara Serrajordi and Olympique Lyon’s Lily Yohannes.
Messi made a similar selection in 2024 to include Lamine Yamal, Antonio Nusa and Kenan Yildiz.
