Last update 6 March, 2025 by Alberto Llopis
Football history is full of players who went to stars and ended estrellados. We remember some players who were considered future soccer stars and ended up as frustrated promises. The speed at which the football world moves, makes today a player is at the top and tomorrow is not nobody. If this younger applies, the result ends up being devastating. As in these cases
Players who were going for stars but didn't get it
Freddy Adu
It was definitely going to be the new Pele, Pearl USA. The hopes for this player born in Ghana 2 June 1989 but settled and raised in the US they were so high, sporting large firms turned him. Product marketing more than reality, to the 16 he was already considered one of the greatest promises of world football.
As a teenager, He had already made his debut in the maximum category and the US national team. Made the leap to Europe and his career hit a slump logical. He failed to get off the ground despite playing in teams like Benfica, y finished announcing vacuums Undoubtedly one of the greatest examples of players who went to stars and they not got off the ground.
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Sebastian Nayar
Sebastian Nayar was born 10 May 1988. Like many Argentine players, She began to emerge soon, but as with many players from this source, the anxious desire to bring it to Europe and make money too soon ended his career.
He had barely raised his head in Boca when he They took him to Europe to play for Recreativo de Huelva. To finish, a controversy between Boca, the representative of the player and Recreativo, He ended the inactive player for many months. He ended up lost wandering around the world, playing in Mexico, Colombia and Greece, in the Second Spanish B teams like Orihuela and even Gibraltar, but it never reached the expected level.
Gai Assulin
Forged from 12 years in the quarry Barca, This Israeli-born 1991, was going to be the new Messi. He came to make a pre-season with Barca Guardiola 2009 and he debuted with the first team in a match of Copa del Rey. That ended his career with FC Barcelona team. He debuted in adolescent age with the selection of Israel and the success he was perhaps went to his head. The point is that without having played practically with the first team, decided to go to Manchester City with the intention and conviction that there he would be a regular in the first team.
His career faded and Manchester was not the place of his triumph. He finished on loan at Brighton Second and left England with more pain than glory. He passed Racing Santander, Hercules or Sabadell among other equipment, always in Second and Second B and then minor leagues. If you want to know what was Gai Assulin We tell you more in this article. Another great example of those for star players who were and they ended estrellados.
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Sergio Santamaria
In 1997, She received the Golden Ball for the best player of the FIFA U 17 for his involvement with the Spanish team. In this World they had players like Ronaldinho and Milito but malagueño highlighted above them. In the same batch Xavi, shared team with him in the lower Barcelona. In May of 2000, Louis van Gaal, He made his debut in the First Division with Barca shirt. It was short-lived, it had to go in search of minutes and his career stalled. He went through several teams Second, B second and even third, category where play again after hanging up his boots. a shame, as pointed lot.
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Javier Portillo
He blew the record scorer in the quarry of Real Madrid after scoring 700 goals in the lower ranks of the white club. His entry into the first team was also spectacular, He scored several key goals for Real Madrid , especially his first goal, marked Champions.
I had to leave the club to play in Italy with Fiorentina and Belgium where he played in the ranks of Bruges. First then he wandered without much success and finished second and playing in the Segunda B Hercules where after, He became the club's sporting director whose owner, It was his father-in-law.
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