Felix (Tales from the Pitch)

Felix plays for Spanish club Atletico Madrid. He is Portuguese and plays for the Portugal national team as a forward. He can also play as a winger or an attacking midfielder. Joao Felix is the second most expensive teenager of all time having joined Atletico Madrid from Benfica in 2019 for 126m euros and has been called the most exciting Portuguese player since Cristiano Ronaldo.

This biography is one of the new titles in Ransom's Tales from the Pitch series. These books offers 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 Joao 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.