• AS Roma signed a 9-year-old soccer star to a contract -- and here's why

  • By Joe DeMartino | September 29, 2014 12:45:30 PM PDT

The race to identify game-changing talent is a fierce one in the world of soccer, with scouts showing up at games where the players are all shorter than 5 feet tall. Once you've seen the talents of 9-year-old Pietro Tomaselli, however, you'll know why AS Roma recently signed him to its youth academy:

It gets better: That video was from when Tomaselli was just 8. By now, as a veteran footballer of 9, he's probably 10 times better.


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