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On a humid Budapest evening earlier this season, a game between MTK Budapest and Újpest FC looked to be heading into a stalemate.

But MTK coach, Giovanni Costantino, was desperate to conjure a result and decided throw his final dice by putting 16 year old Zalán Vancsa on the pitch with 20 minutes to go.

"At the end of the first half, we were 0-0, I said to him be ready because you will come in and decide the match," Costantino said.

Little did he know, that 20 minutes later as the game ebbed into extra time, he would be proven right.

Vancsa pounced onto a loose ball about 30 yards from goal, he controlled the ball and broke into the penalty area, before calmly slotting the ball into the back of the net showing maturity beyond his years.

That goal made Vancsa MTK's youngest goal-scorer in the top flight in 100 years and the sixth youngest in Hungary's top tier overall aged 16 years and nine months, just one month older than Hungary's legendary, Ferenc Puskás.

By then, scouts — including Manchester City's Milan Holub — were closely tracking the teenager who had been training with MTK's first team since he was 15 and who caught the eye in a Hungary U17 international fixture against Serbia in which he netted a brace and registered an assist.

But it was only a few weeks later that Vancsa really broke onto the scene in the UEFA Youth League.

In late September and early October, Vancsa led his MTK U19 side past Sparta Prague in the first round of the UEFA Youth League scoring four goals and registering two assists in the two-game tie.

He followed that up with another goal in Budapest in a 2-1 defeat to Genk before his side bowed out of the competition.

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