Barcelona’s Bojan is starting to crack under La Liga pressure

If anyone wishes to see the dangers of thrusting a young footballer into the limelight too quickly, they should consider Barcelona’s eighteen-year-old sensation Bojan Krkić. The striker was called up to international duty before making the full Barca team, and last season broke Raul’s record for most goals in a debut season (ten).

However, he has made little impact this season, and ol’ Terry Henry replaced him during a match with Getafe on Sunday, the poor little chap burst into a flood of tears.

After complaints of illness and anxiety, it looks like the pressure is really getting to him.

[Bleacher Report]

Catalan wonderkid redefines low-key

Barcelona and Spain’s next big thing Bojan Krkic scored his first goal at the Camp Nou at the weekend, a moment of delirium for any player, especially when only 17. Young Bojan celebrated as would any teenager who’d just guaranteed himself twenty years of exorbitant salaries and the attentions of the world’s most beautiful women - by jo