Unless any of the great Knowledge populace knows better, then yes, yes he is Pete. In case you missed the story, Mauricio Baldivieso, a striker for Aurora in the Bolivian league, was sent on as a 39th-minute substitute in a first division match against La Paz on Sunday, three days before his 13th birthday – which is today, incidentally.
Although it reportedly all ended in tears, the result of some rough marking from the La Paz defence, the player's coach, the former Bolivia midfielder Julio Cesar Baldivieso (also the player's father) offered the following impartial assessment of his son's ability: "I'm very proud, he's got a lot of talent."
According to reports in South America, Baldivieso beat a record set by Peru's Fernando Garcia, who turned out for Juan Aurich in 2001 aged 13. It is, however, all but impossible to verify the age of some other whipper-snappers who may have bounded out in the men's game before their voices had broken.
The former Manchester United player Souleymane Mamam, for instance, is still listed by Fifa as the youngest-ever player in a World Cup qualifying match, supposedly aged 13 years and 310 days when he appeared for Togo against Zambia in May 2001. Presumably this was not his senior debut, meaning it's possible he was close to Baldivieso's age when he first stepped out, although question marks have continued to hover over Maman's claims throughout his career. When he appeared for Royal Antwerp on loan from United, for instance, the club listed his year of birth as 1985, meaning he was at least 16 at the time of the Togo-Zambia match.
The Ghana-born United States international Freddy Adu first attracted the attentions of the Washington Post when he was but 12 years old, and there was much Adu in Sports Illustrated in 2003, when the striker was 13. He had to wait until 14 to sign a professional contract at DC United, however, and was two months shy of 15 when he made his full debut.
That makes Adu barely younger than the youngest-ever verified league player in this country: the Barnsley striker Reuben Noble-Lazarus, who was 15 years 45 days old when he appeared against Ipswich Town last September. As for the English top flight, Fulham's defender Matthew Briggs is the youngest ever to grace the Premier League turf. He was 16 years and 65 days old when he came on as a substitute in May 2007, but has yet to make a first-team appearance since.
rofl i just saw the vid of his debut.
12 year old already know how to act like kanna shot. ![]()
his father, the coach taught him lor lol