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The Incredible Rise of Barcelona's New Sensation Ansu Fati

The Spanish press has been ablaze all week with stories about Ansu Fati. The 16-year-old has drawn heady comparisons with the game's greatest players, including precocious talents like Pele, George Best and his team-mate and captain at Barcelona, Lionel Messi.

In the space of a few rollercoaster weeks, he's become the youngest scorer in Barcelona's history and the club's youngest debutant in the UEFA Champions League. He started on Tuesday night in an attacking trident alongside Luiz Suarez and Antoine Griezmann in front of Borussia Dortmund's infamous Yellow Wall of supporters in Germany.

He scored in only his second appearance for Barcelona with a glancing header against Osasuna; it took Messi nine games to score his first official goal for the club in 2005.