{"id":24368,"date":"2016-06-16T08:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=24368"},"modified":"2016-06-16T08:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:14:05","slug":"meet-the-irish-mini-messi-already-ruling-the-world-at-age-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/meet-the-irish-mini-messi-already-ruling-the-world-at-age-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Irish Mini Messi Already Ruling The World At Age 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 12-year-old has been dubbed the \u2018Irish Mini Messi\u2019, and has become known around the world for his incredible freestyle videos.<\/p>\n

Duffy has graduated through the Brazilian Soccer Schools in Dublin, and you can easily see where he gets his skill from.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s already been involved with Manchester United\u2019s academy, and has a list of credits under his belts from the likes of McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

His father, Michael, says that the youngster is driven in wanting to\u00a0become one of the world\u2019s greatest footballers.<\/p>\n

He told Dream Team<\/em>: \u201cCiaran could dribble since the age of two and hasn\u2019t stopped. All his pressure is his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe believes that you can\u2019t just get better at anything without putting lots of extra hard work in and that is one thing he is amazing at and that you have to love your sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cCiaran does not actually practice freestyle much! He just gets it really fast and it\u2019s good for ball control and compliments a great first touch.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween training, street football and matches Ciaran puts well in excess of 40 hours a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe also has used his freestyle to help raise money for sick kids we knew and charities such as the Crumlin Children\u2019s Hospital and the Irish Homeless Football Steet Leagues Team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 12-year-old has been dubbed the \u2018Irish Mini Messi\u2019, and has become known around the world for his incredible freestyle videos. Duffy has graduated through the Brazilian Soccer Schools in Dublin, and you can easily see where he gets his skill from. He\u2019s already been involved with Manchester United\u2019s academy, and has a list of credits under his belts from the likes of McDonald\u2019s. His father, Michael, says that the youngster is driven in wanting to\u00a0become one of the world\u2019s greatest footballers. He told Dream Team: \u201cCiaran could dribble since the age of two and hasn\u2019t stopped. All his pressure <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[4861,170,4862,2554],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24371,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions\/24371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24368"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}