{"id":138627,"date":"2025-09-12T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138627\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:02:09","slug":"jj-gabriel-man-utds-14-year-old-kid-messi-who-is-growing-up-fast-and-on-the-lamine-yamal-path-to-superstardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138627\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Gabriel: Man Utd’s 14-year-old ‘Kid Messi’ who is growing up fast and on the Lamine Yamal path to superstardom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The precociously talented winger has the ability to lead the Red Devils back to the top – if they are lucky enough to keep hold of him<\/p>\n

From Lamine Yamal firing Spain to Euro 2024 glory while preparing for school exams,<\/a> Arsenal’s Max Dowman making his Premier League debut<\/a> at the age of 15 and Rio Ngumoha scoring the winner for Liverpool at Newcastle while still just 16, the world’s biggest clubs and international sides are becoming more and more open to the adage that ‘if you’re good enough, you’re old enough’.<\/p>\n

And while those players all have the capability to go on and win every prize the game has to offer, there is a belief that Manchester United might just have the very best youth player in the world on their hands and will soon be ready to unleash him into the professional game – if they are lucky enough to keep hold of him, that is.<\/p>\n

JJ Gabriel may only be 14 years old but he has been\u00a0killing it at Under-18 level<\/a> and it cannot be long before he makes his first senior appearance. The winger – who has been likened to three of the best players of the last 20 years in Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo – has been causing a stir since millions of people watched him strut his stuff on a skills video when he was just eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gabriel already boasts a huge online following, but any suggestions he was being over-hyped have been hushed by his mesmerising displays and his ruthless goal record in a frightening start to the season. GOAL has the lowdown on the player who was first known as ‘Kid Messi’ but who is fast making a name for himself…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The precociously talented winger has the ability to lead the Red Devils back to the top – if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[2209,49,48,5105,74912,2680,74913,574,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-138627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-features","12":"tag-j-gabriel","13":"tag-manchester-united","14":"tag-nxgn","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}