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Plucked by scouts from a dusty football pitch in a rough and tumble neighbourhood of South Africa's Port Elizabeth, 16-year-old Kermit Erasmus now attends the country's leading football academy.

Erasmus's dream is to blaze his way into the national team when South Africa hosts the World Cup in 2010. His hopes are not so far-fetched. In recent weeks he scored a hat-trick playing for the Under-17s side against Zimbabwe.

The goals are already the stuff of legend. Erasmus was on the bench for the first half but when sent on he quickly drove the ball into the net three times, giving the South African side a 5-2 win.

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