Football's Next Star champ who joined Inter and doubled for Ronaldo now plays non-league
dailystar.co.ukInter Milan back in 2010.Following the success of Wayne Rooney's Street Striker, Sky One decided to create the series 'Football's Next Star', with the winner receiving a short-term deal with Jose Mourinho's Inter side.
Greenhalgh won the competition, and trained alongside Inter's famous treble winning side after beating 2,000 other contestants to the prize.The 17-year-old even acted as Cristiano Ronaldo's body double in adverts as the world was at his feet.
But 12 years on and Greenhalgh is playing non-league football for Margate after bouncing around multiple lower league opposition.READ MORE: Romelu Lukaku ordered on diet at Inter after returning from Chelsea 'too heavy'Greenhalgh may now be playing in the Isthmian League Premier Division, but the 30-year-old has a Champions League medal to his name following his six-month stint at Inter, memories that the star remembers fondly.
It may not have worked out for Greenhalgh at Inter, but he did begin to star for Como after he was loaned out to the then third division side.However, a match-fixing scandal meant that the club couldn't sign him permanently, and Greenhalgh was left with no choice but to return to England after failing to breakthrough into a star-studded Inter side. "To this day, those memories you can't compete with," he told the Daily Mail."I was quite level-headed when training with the first-team, I knew where I was and where they were.
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