11 PROMISING PLAYERS TO KEEP AN EYE ON!

1- Giancarlo Gonzalez (Costa Rica) Age: 26

2- Divock Origi (Belgium) Age: 19
3- Eliaquim Magala (France) Age: 23

4- Antoine Griezmann (France) Age: 23

5- Jose Juan Vazquez (Mexico)Age: 26

6- Jose Gimenez (Uruguay)Age: 19

7- Paul Pogba (France) Age: 21

8- Julian Green (USA) Age: 19

9- Juan Fernando Quintero (Colombia) Age: 21
10- Mateo Kovacic (Croatia) Age: 20

11- Miralem Pjanic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) Age: 24

One of the joys of watching FIFA's quadrennial football fest is seeing relative unknowns -- young prospects or previously unheralded players -- come to the fore with some dazzling football.

Here are 11 players who have made their mark in Brazil (or the run-up to the World Cup), and who will leave the country with some of the world's biggest clubs salivating over the prospect of adding these stars of the future to their rosters.

Perhaps by 2018, in Russia, these 11 will be household names.