One of my mates started up a football team (that’s soccer to any americans reading this!) where a bunch of us meet up in the park on sunday afternoon.
It was recruited for through a site called gumtree.com, which while primarily designed for finding housemates in London, also has sections for most community pastimes.

After our game on sunday, we were talking about some of the people who’ve shown an interest in our “team” which has included a Mr Jackson from Ghana who seems to want an invitation and believes that we are a famous club. He is apparently a very talented 20-ish year old, but part of me thinks it’s a Nigeria scam

Anyway, we got talking about famous young talented footballers, and a few names came up including:
Freddy Adu – born in Ghana, but came to the US when he was 8 years old. He made his professional football debut when he was just 14! The youngest ever footballer and youngest sportsman in the US in over 100 years. He’s nearly 17 now, at which point he would be eligible to play for a European or UK club
Here’s a little Google Video on him which showcases his talents

Today, i got the link of a video of the most amazing skills i’ve seen from a young brazillian player released by his then club ADAP:
Jean Carlos Chera on Google Video – tipped as the next Ronaldinho, this 11 year old Brazillian is something else. What’s even more amazing is some of the footage in this video is from when he’s 6 or 7 years old!
English Club Manchester United were interested in training him but it looks like he’s going to remain in brazil where he will learn at Santos, the club which was home to Pelé – the legend of Brazillian Football
Looks like he’s left footed, so perhaps a future Roberto Carlos
I suggest you download the avi file, because the video isn’t great quality, and it plays better than the stream off google video.
You can also see more about him on jean-carlos-chera.com, and there are more links on wikipedia
I suspect that all the videos are down as a consequence of everyone watching the video on google video bombarding his page to see if there’s more

While writing this post i stumbled on an article from last year which has news of a 7 year old called Panos Armenakas from Australia who is playing for the Bolton Wanders (UK club) youth team. Unfortunately no google video, but i’m sure we’ll see more from him if he is anywhere near as good as the article suggests