The Real Madrid-bound forward is still only 17 years of age but he's played a pivotal
role in a nail-biting title race
Football can be a cruel game. It's never over until
the final whistle blows. Titles can sometimes be lost even after they appear to have
been won. Nobody will ever forget Newcastle and Kevin Keegan cracking under the
pressure applied upon the Premier League's great entertainers by Manchester United and
Sir Alex Ferguson's mind games in 1996.
Or the time a Real Madrid team containing
Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Luis Figo, David Beckham and Roberto Carlos went from first
to fourth in La Liga after losing six of their final seven games.
And there's Steven
Gerrard's infamous slip in 2014, when Liverpool were perfectly placed to end a
championship drought that stretched back to 1990, only to see their captain gift
Chelsea a goal that still haunts him today.
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However, when it
comes to spectacular collapses, the almost-unbelievable Botafogo bottle-job of 2024
trumps the whole lot. Never before have we seen a team in one of the world's top
leagues squander such an advantage at the top of the table, through a costly
combination of misfortune, mismanagement and the sensational form of a 17-year-old
striker who looks set to take the Santiago Bernabeu by storm next season...