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7 Footballing Legacies That Could Be Passed Down a Generation in the Near Future

It's pretty rare that world class footballing ability is passed down a generation. There have been countless stories of professionals having a stab at following in their parent's footsteps, but never really materialising as a top-level talent.

Rarer still, though not unheard of, are the cases where young players go on to match, and then surpass, the gauntlet laid down to them by their family name.

With Ryan Giggs confirming on Monday that his 12-year-old son is in the embryonic stages of an attempt at just that, however, we've thrown together a list of seven famous players whose legacies could soon find themselves under threat by the emergence of their offspring.