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I'm fairly sure its against the laws of the game to play a 13 year old in that age category, not that the SFA will have the guts to actually enforce it. There certainly used to be a rule that you had to be aged within two or three years of the other players until you reached 16.

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6 hours ago, 7-2 said:

Has any young player that's been called a 'wonderkid' actually made it in the senior game?

More seem to "fail" than succeed, by some definitions. The likes of Joao Moutinho and Javier Saviola were tipped as wonderkids from a very young age, and despite having stellar careers, arguably never live up to their hype.

Football Managers correctly identified the likes of Vincent Kompany, Lionel Messi, Neymar, Robert Lewandowski, Toni Kroos and Gareth Bale as players who'd become top players in Europe years before they reached that level, if that counts?

Lewandowskis my favourite though, as they had him identified as having one of the highest potentials of any young striker in the game when he was playing in the Polish Third Division

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