Bellingham broke into professional football top-notch. By the age of 20, he will play many more minutes than many football legends

Ahead of Neymar, Pedri and Mbappe.

A Twitter user named Louorns calculated that no famous and top footballer in the world had as many minutes of playing minutes by the age of 20 as Jude Bellingham from Dortmund.

“There has been a lot of discussion lately about how many games Bellingham played at his age,” he writes. – I decided to make a table consisting of players and how many matches and minutes they played at the same age. It turned out that Jude had 158 games at the start, while the same David Beckham and Paul Scholes did not even have ten.

We all remember that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi started their football career at a fairly early age, but as you can see from the table, by the age of 20 the Portuguese had “only” 6380 minutes (two times less than Bellingham), then like the Argentine and even less – 3833 minutes.

Not surprisingly, the only ones who can compete with Jude in any way are those who have not yet turned 30 or have just turned 30 (Neymar, for example, 31). Wayne Rooney stands out from among the leaders, who got into Everton’s application at the age of 16. In 2002, this was an amazing phenomenon, but now it is rather commonplace.

It is also surprising that Bellingham’s closest pursuer was actually not Neymar, but Youri Tielemans. By the age of 20, the Belgian had 175 games played, 147 games at the start or 13,154 minutes. He did not get into the table only for the reason that he is not very well known against the background of all other players.