In Italy, Roma's children academy is seemed as one of the maximum prolific on the subject of growing children who cross on to enjoy successful Serie A careers.
Francesco Totti and Daniele De Rossi are the same old bearers for the Giallorossi, and this season Lorenzo Pellegrini has taken first-rate strides in the direction of someday becoming a member of that duo as a homegrown legend at Stadio Olimpico. This season appears set to be the flip of Felix Afena-Gyan.
Thrust into the senior ranks by using Jose Mourinho as his side began to falter in October, most expected the 18-yr-antique to play a piece function, making the abnormal cameo look off the bench in a bid to earn revel in.
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Then Sunday night time's conflict with Genoa modified everything.
With the game goalless coming into the very last 15 minutes, Afena-Gyan become delivered as a substitute in a bid to inject some energy into his aspect's overall performance. Eight mins later, the teen's first-time end nestled into the bottom corner to give the site visitors the lead. Then in stoppage time he unleashed a 25-yard thunderbolt into the top corner to steady a 2-zero avenue victory for Mourinho's guys.
“I promised him that [if he scored] I might purchase him a couple of shoes that he actually likes, that value $900," Mourinho revealed to DAZN after seeing Afena-Gyan end up the third-youngest foreign participant to score multiple dreams in a Serie A suit.
"He got here over to me and informed me now not to overlook that. Tomorrow morning, I will cross and purchase them."
Mourinho became desirable to his phrase, as Afena-Gyan posted a video on Monday of him receiving his new shoes from the two-time Champions League-winning educate.
