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Originally Posted by shermanator
Big name signing by Ottawa. Massive talent, but there's a good reason he's gone from a €25 million release clause with Barcelona to CPL in a few years. He'll either be one of the best players in the league, or warming the bench by the summer...
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Ballou Tabla was the best teenage soccer player I have ever seen. He was electrifying. Our u17 Concacaf WCQ team would simply give him the ball and hope that he could do it all himself. He had more God given talent than any other teenager I've ever seen. He was playing up an age group in USSDA and still dominating. I still remember when he was unstoppable vs Roma in that friendly with the Impact.
He now joins the illustrious ranks of Hanson Boakai and Andrew Carlton, North American teenage phenoms who had attitude problems and wasted that talent.
"the saddest thing in life is wasted talent" - A Bronx tale.