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Meet Estudiantes' Juan Foyth, the Tottenham target who dribbles like Lionel Messi!

The La Plata native is close to leaving his boyhood club for Spurs, and they would be getting a defensive prospect of the highest quality

In a country that has produced the likes of Lionel Messi, Juan Roman Riquelme, Diego Maradona and countless other brilliant attacking talents, it is not easy to grab attention for your abilities at the other end of the pitch. Defenders are the odd men out in Argentina, and rarely given credit for their work either in the media or when big European clubs come knocking.

Estudiantes' latest wonderkid Juan Foyth, however, might just prove the exception to the rule.