Liverpool, Napoli, Ajax, Mo Salah, Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez, Giovanni Simeone and Mohammed Kudus.For most 18-year-old it reads like a game of fantasy football.
But for Leon King it was spine-tingling reality when the Rangers kid was launched right onto the biggest stage in European football last season to rub shoulders with some of the continent’s best players in some of the world’s most famous arenas.And all before he even turned 19.
King started at Anfield and again in Naples’ Stadio Diego Armando Maradona whilst also lining up from the first whistle against Ajax at home.
Incredibly the defender appeared in every one of Rangers’ six group stage games including a half-time introduction in the Amsterdam Arena.And while the Euro campaign may have ended pointless it was anything but for the academy graduate learning his trade on the toughest stage of all.
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