Why Real Madrid Bet 70,000,000€ On A 15 Year Old "Pelé Clone"

so just take a look at these photos yeah andri literally looks like they took p and brought him back on a time machine which in a world where every Wonder kid seems to have been made in a lab just raised surrounded by coaches agents nutritionists and physiotherapist with the only goal of getting them signed to Nike by the moment they turn 11 seems a bit suspicious I mean €70 million EUR for a kid that had just turned 16 years old it's no wonder so many people feel like everything about endri is just fake that is

an industry plant something doesn't add up but we're actually all wrong I was so ready to make a whole video exposing endri as one massive marketing stunt but what I found instead is that he's much more real than any other Wonder kid around he's no Rodrigo no Chavis seamons no Holland there were no gimmicks in his rise to fame just when everyone was starting to feel like the beautiful game was dead it really does feel like the chosen one like a footballer of another time straight out the streets like Ronaldo andario look it tries to

hide it but Hendrick's whole identity is built on trauma people say he acts grown up for the cameras because they don't understand it in reality he was forced to grow up too fast you see for Generations everyone in the family had tried to become a footballer his own dad left his house at 15 years of age and hitchhiked 600 mil from Brazilia to S Paulo with only a pair of football boots a couple water bottles and a loaf of bread looking for a club that would give him a chance on his first night it rained

and he slept under the tiny roof of the ticket office at the palish stadium as andri said do you think on that day he could have ever imagined his son would play there of course not when he finally found the clo willing to give him a trial he collapsed from exhaustion and missed it thankfully years later he did find himself making a living in a stadium with 70,000 fans but not as a player his dad worked as a janitor at the manaa stadium the dream was dead or so he thought because there he fell in

love with one of his co-workers and a few years later HRI was born and from there on out it was all football again once andri was big enough to follow along his that would bring him to watch him play for this tiny local team but it'd always be kind of confused because every time he'd get back to the stance andri would be holding a sandwich in a soda although he never really gave him any money but just as he began worrying that he was stealing from the bar he found out andri had worked out a

deal with a bartender where he bet his clients that the kid could hit the crossbar first try and then andri would take his cut a soda and a sandwich still even his own dad was confused that we had gotten so good at striking a ball I mean he knew the kid was all about football he never played with any other toy he had joined a footall Academy at four years of age he slept with one of his dead trophies like messy after the World Cup and he always introduced himself to everyone as HRI sza Striker

hell the dad almost named them the Stefano and it not been for the mom putting her foot down and calling him crazy but that level of accuracy at that age no Academy can teach that when they asked andri how he learned it he didn't seem to understand what was so impressive about it he just told him we live on top of a hill if I don't hit the target the ball will just roll all the way down to the next vlla and I don't want to have to run after it so I just don't miss

yeah by the time andrick was seven his footall Academy had already bumped him up all the way to the under 13s but no one ever seemed quite good enough to put up a fight so you know what they did they forbade him from using his strongest foot and before they knew it the boy was pretty much empty dextrous a year later he was already at a local Academy that had a partnership with s Paulo he'd go to the city twice a year so they could check up on him and every time they were mind blown

by the things he could do it all looked set for him to join the Club but when he finally turned 10 and could actually move into their facilities his dad only asked for a job in the city and a place to stay and not only did they refuse they offer to give them 150 r a month which is like €20 you have to realize Andre's parents starved themselves so they could make sure their kid had something to eat sending him away to an academy was like a way to make sure he would be settled but

they also didn't want to let go of their son like that so they were at a Crossroads not knowing knowing what to do is that gathered all the footage he had of endri playing and posted on YouTube hoping someone would see it and it made its way to the director of pales but they only offered to take him on trial so it changed nothing until one day andri told his own parents don't worry football will change our lives according to him before that day football was just a child's game then it became my mission a

few weeks later he took the trial his dad stayed back in Brazilia working for the family and andrick and his mom moved to s Paul to a house where a few other kids were staying during their own trials but his enri said there was no TV no internet while I trained mom had to wait in a park reading the Bible praying back at the house it was hard mom would cook for me and the other kids would come asking for food we were all hungry but she only had enough for us too eventually she stopped

cooking cuz she couldn't stomach having the other kids watch while we ate sometimes at night i' ask for food and she tell me go to sleep baby the hunger will go away that woman went through hell she called her husband all the time saying she couldn't take it anymore that they had to go back home but every day andri came back from training with a twinkle in his eyes so she held on and one day it happened Palmers told HRI they wanted him to join the under 11s and they got his father a job cleaning

the locker rooms but even then they made sacrifices his father hid the fact that he was Hendrick's dead from everyone because he was afraid he would mock him for it but trust me soon there'd be nothing to make fun of the moment andri joined it was absolute domination top score Awards left and right even when in that first year he ended up breaking his foot being told that he'd never make it to the Pista Championship final the biggest game of the year Not only was he there but he scored the bicycle kick in the away

match and then in the second leg in that same stadium where he's dead at once hit from the rain he scored the winner with 20,000 fans watching telling a journalist that he had three objectives in his life to reach the first team win everything he could with them and then join Real Madrid it was only 11 at the time over the next two years he won the pished to twice more first with the under 13s then with the under 15s and between those tons he somehow a time to win four more including the cup of

theodo where he literally scored the winner in the final by loving the keeper and taking the player of the tournament award suddenly Barcelona AC Milan Juventus Bayern Munich and PSG were all after these 13-year-old who kept scoring every match against much older opposition going at them with the speed and power of Ronaldo the instinctual finishing of Romario and with no evidence of slowing down by 2022 andri got to play the ca if you know nothing about Brazilian football this is a huge deal Namar Kazmir Gabrielle zus Vini Jr DN near every big name was made

there so guess what 15-year-old endri went into this under 20 tournament scored the brace in his first game becoming the youngest SK score in its history and by the second game he came in at halftime and scored two more first with an absurd solo run and the second with a ridiculous strike bullying everyone around with a shaved head I could swear I was watching Ronaldo and if that wasn't enough then on his next start he smacked in a bicycle kick from outside a box getting Gary liner out of everyone in the world to claim that

I think we're seeing a very special talent emerging and that well that was before he Scar the opener fight minutes into the final becoming his team's top scorer and winning the goal and player of the tournament Awards leading Palmers to the first ever coping a title in their history but you know what the club decided to do next they stuck him in the under 17 Cup of Brazil HRI scored twice in the quarters twice in the semis and then closed it out with four goals in the final even scored one right from the middle of

the pitch I guess at that point they felt a bit sorry for the other play so they sent him back to the under 20s where he scored twice in the semis and another in the final taking the national championship only the second of that kind in palish history the hype was so absurd that he made the cover of Mara a Spanish newspaper three times in a single year the first team coach at palmea zel FAA literally had to bring him into first team training in a rush because even other Brazilian teams like Flamingo were coming

after him had it been up to the fans he would have been called up to the club World Cup up at 15 regardless instead he joined a Brazilian under 17s for the monteo tournament in France and scored four plus an assist in three matches leading them to the final against Argentina where they set up a whole defensive scheme so that two man would always be marking andri only for the kid to go in and score 89 seconds into the match and even when Argentina managed to get a goal back he rushed their box and won

the penalty that led Brazil to their first title at the tournament since 198 before as enri once again took the player of the tournament award as the athletic wrote as much as everyone tells you not to overhype a 15-year-old after watching andri that is just impossible and so having become the first ever player in the history of Palmers to win every competition possible at the Youth Level scoring 161 goals in 188 games spending over 5 years at their Academy the moment he turned 16 he was instantly handed a contract and promoted to the first team

before the season was even over so now that he had finally gotten a big check and moved his parents into a nice house right by the stadium it was time to conquer Brazil after only 75 minutes on the pitch andri had already scored his first to bring the team back from being one goal down and if just being there already made him the youngest to ever play for palmes now he was also the second youngest to score in the League's history and 11 minutes later he made it a brace the next game he scored another

and only 10 days later with The League season already coming to an end somehow not only did he take the Brazilian championship title right away but he was named as the best young Player of the Year and despite having already visited the Chelsea training grounds and met with the players their owners hesitated for a second and of course Real Madrid came in with 7 million and made him the third most expensive player in the history of Brazilian football and the most expensive under 18 player of all time them near doubling the previous record of Rodrigo

and V Jr but before he could even move there he had a year and a half to wait until he turned 18 so it was time to get back to business so here's where things get a bit tense his second season did not go so well you see andri started things by going on 12 matches without scoring by the 10th he already seemed so embarrassed that when he got subbed off he covered his own face with a training bib things weren't looking good the Spanish media was already coming for him calling out Real Madrid for

spending so much money on a kid who couldn't score a goal to save his life but as his manager Abel fra said he's going to hit some he's going to miss some but here with me he only has one demand keep that smile on your face kid and so with palmes off to the final of the Pista andri score twice secure the title and made everyone in the Press look dumb telling them three competitions that I've played in as a pro three titles I guess I'm finally ready to be a starter for the under 20s

and though from there on out the manager did opt to keep him out of the starting 11 and give him some more time to bre then andri just kept popping off he scored in the opener of the Brazilian Championship then he came in two games later and scored again started getting cups to the libertador and got his first goal after only 37 minutes on the pitch then scored against s Paulo and things started going wrong again with Palmers Midway through a streak that would see them win only one out of eight consecutive matches andri went

into a game against V Hawks atletic peren missed the penalty then scored and proceeded to dance in front of the cameras which was all fun and games until atletic came back for the draw leading the fans to turn on him claiming he was losing his way and focusing more on his little dances than on scoring goals it got so bad that a belf FR dialed back his game time even harder trying to get him farther away from the spotlight but with 10 matches left in the lead season and paler sitting fourth 12 points from leaders

B to Fogo and the manager's job on the line he decided to switch to a two- Striker system so that andry could be brought back to the team and he impossible happened suddenly Palm started winning again but the fol started collapsing and with the two clubs having to face one another shortly after giving Palmas a chance to miraculously go within four points of the top they went in and 36 minutes later Palmas were trailing behind 3-0 but there was one thing butuk weren't expecting before the match andri had ear their fans chant we're already Champions

and the kid lost it 4 minutes into the second half half he went on a crazy solo run to bring them one goal back immediately went to pick the ball back from the net and yelled at his teammates just get the ball to me however Not only was that second goal just not coming but on the 83rd minute but fog won a penalty and it all seemed lost until andri pointed at the keeper to dive to his right thanks to which he saved the penalty and one minute later andri got the ball in his possession

with the craziest of first touches and smacked in the three to2 before putting in the cross that led to the equal ier in the final minute of the match with palmes grabbing the winner 9 minutes into injury time it was one of the greatest comebacks in a history of the sport and endri had just broken B Fogo they did not win another match until the end of the season well the boy well he closed out his night by claiming that after hearing those chant I just couldn't let our fans sit there and watch something like

that happen only for the journalists to then explain that the chance weren't about the match but in honor of the Pan-American athletes who were present at the stadium that day they say don't poke the bear I guess in Hendrick's case you also got to make sure not to make too much noise no matter what the game after that palas won again and andri scored the only goal then he scored against International in American Min when in the final match of the Season he scored a decisive goal that made it all a reality in the span

of 10 matches andri took Palmers past flamingo bantino in b Fogo to complete a comeback that will forever be written in the history books of Brazilian football as he said my mother says that I'm cold that my heart is made of ice I'm a player who shows up at times when it's difficult I like games like this and one thing you can rest assured he was more than forgiven for whatever lack of form you'd gone through andri was the second highest scoring under 18 player in the history of the league aside only from Ronaldo phenomeno

thanks to all of this andrick made it to the league's team of the year he also took the awards for the best goal and most promising player once again he was named by the guardian as one of the most promising players in the world he became the youngest since again honalo to get a call up to the national team he signed a Michael Jordan type deal with New Balance to become the new poster boy of the company and closed out the Year by visiting the bernabel and meeting with Carlo and chelotti for his final season

at Palmas he started off by getting on the wrong side of the media once again after Brazil was C rally knocked out of the Olympic Games qualifiers way too soon but then well Andre came back to the first team and scored the only goal in their friendly against England becoming the fourth youngest to ever score for the national team and the youngest out of Any Nation to ever score at Wembley dedicating his goal to Bobby Charlton which surely proves he's a time traveler and then taking a quick detour and scoring at the bernabo against Spain

to clinch the draw to which let me say if your teenage signing already has a bernabel goal you know is the real deal regardless before it was time for that he ran it back one final time scoring the only goal of the semi-final taking the finals player of the match and eventually the tournaments as well taking palmes to another Pisha and an injury scare in a callup to a tremendously disappointing cope America that led a commentator to claim that they want a 17-year-old to save the entire Squad and in the blink of an eye enri

was at Real Madrid getting greeted by 60,000 fans and breaking down in tears saying that I never thought there'd be so many people but don't worry you'll get used to it