With his creativity acrobatic talent and sheer speed Joao Felix can make top-level football look effortless.

But Joao’s journey to the top has not been easy. As a skinny kid he’d already given up on football once before harnessing his inner strength and determination to win both the Portuguese and the Spanish leagues.

Join the heir to Ronaldo on his mission to become one of the greatest players in the game.


This biography is one of the new titles in Ransom's Tales from the Pitch series. These books offer a fresh take on the familiar football biography format.

Each of these fast-moving reads focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar players who are still to reach the summit of their career. From the young Portuguese talent Joo Felix to Virgil van Dijk and Raheem Sterling these biographies cover the full range of European football. The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure injury and rejection to ultimately make their dreams come true.

So meet the fresh young talent behind the iconic tackles and goals and find out what makes each of these players so special.