BRAZIL'S NEW BOY WONDER

At 17, Endrick is tipped for stardom

- NEIL McLEMAN

AT the age of 17, he’s already earned comparisons with Pele and Ronaldo. 

And England fans will tonight get a first chance to see Endrick – the new boy wonder of Brazilian football – at the start of his quest for global super-stardom.

But the Real Madrid signing, who nearly joined Chelsea in 2022, has revealed he has already got to know the stadiums where he will play his two biggest matches outside South America this week – Wembley and the Bernabeu.

“I know both by playing video games,” he said. “It will be incredible to see how majestic they are, how grand they are, how many people they hold.

“So I know that playing in these two stadiums is going to be wonderful.”

Endrick, who joins Real Madrid this summer from Palmeiras, will form a new Galacticos attack with France’s Kylian Mbappe, fellow Brazilian Vinicius Junior and England’s Jude Bellingham.