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A dynamite performance for the Germany U21s over the November international break has only served to further amp up the hype surrounding 17-year-old Bayern Munich phenom Lennart Karl. FCB honorary president and German football icon Uli Hoeneß congratulated Karl on continuing to collect spectacular successes, yet expressed skepticism about talk cropping up comparing Karl to Lionel Messi.
Karl’s deceptively slight build (the teenage talent is only 1.69m or 5 ft, 7 in tall) can’t help but evoke the Messi comparisons. The two players share almost precisely the same height. The fact that both players are hitting their initial professional stride at the same age makes…
