Romelu Lukaku (Belgium)
The giant and powerful Chelsea front man has a huge future ahead of him in the game, with the 20-year-old having already made quite an impression during his brief period in the Premier League on loan with the likes of West Bromwich Albion and Everton.
Meanwhile, for Marc Wilmots’s national team, the man dubbed the ‘new Didier Drogba’ is already a fixture up front for Belgium, with the front man having managed to find the back of the net on five occasions in his 24 international appearances, and expect more from him in South America next year too.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Greece)
Schalke 04’s imposing centre back has been on the sidelines for the past 12 months after suffering a serious knee-ligament injury last year, but the 21-year-old is still expected to have fully recovered in time to take his place at the heart of the Greeks’ back four by the time that the World Cup gets under way next June.
Of course, Greece do still need to make it past Romania in their two-legged play-off tie, however, if they can navigate that obstacle safely, then the watching world will then get a glimpse of one of European football’s most highly rated and sough-after central defenders.