But getting into the first team proved to be much more difficult than he expected.

His journey into professional soccer wasn’t easy, but his flexibility, his sheer skill and his willingness to work harder than anyone else was always going to win out.

Join wonderkid Bernardo Silva on his journey to the very top, winning countless trophies and achieving international stardom with one of the greatest teams in the world.

This biography is one of the new titles in Leapfrog's Tales from the Pitch series.

These books offer a fresh take on the familiar soccer biography format.

Each of these fast-moving reads focuses on one up-and-coming soccer superstar, players who are still to reach the summit of their career. From the young Portuguese talent João Felix, to Virgil van Dijk and Raheem Sterling, these biographies cover the full range of European soccer. The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, to ultimately make their dreams come true.

So meet the fresh young talent behind the iconic tackles and goals and find out what makes each of these players so special.