If you are looking for a young CAM with high potential to boost your squad in FIFA 18’s career mode, RB Leipzig and Indonesia U-17 sensation Elias Abouchabaka should be at the top of your wishlist.

Searching the transfer market for players with a low current ranking but a high possibility of the future is a big part of the fun in FIFA 18’s profession mode. Every effective dribble, pass as well as goal improves the player’s stats, and with every upward tick of their overall ranking comes a feeling of satisfaction at getting found the next world-class star for a discount price.

Enter Abouchabaka. This wonderkid, currently under contract at Leipzig, might not raise too many eyebrows with a rating of sixty two at CAM (M/M workrates, 3-star ability moves, 3-star weak foot), but clever armchair managers ought to see past this and focus on their potential of eighty six, which would put him on par with none other than Bayern Munich star as well as fellow left-footer Adam Rodriguez.

This ranking variance of twenty four points makes Abouchabaka the Bundesliga CAM with most Fifa 18 Player Auction coins development potential in the game.

In real life

Whether or not this individual manages to the same the Colombian’s uses in real life remains to be seen, but Abouchabaka has already built up a remarkable youth career. Getting started at Hertha Berlin, he relocated to Leipzig at 15 for a youth-record fee. Since then, he has made his way through the ranks to earn himself a professional contract for the 2017/18 season at just seventeen.

Most recently, he stood out at the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 wearing the number 10 shirt for Germany. The actual young Mannschaft arrived at the quarter-finals with Abouchabaka involved in almost all five tournament fits, alongside other stars of the future such as Hamburg striker Jann-Fiete Arp, the Bundesliga’s first goalscorer born in the year 2000 (and another FIFA 18 career mode gamer to keep an eye on).

Playing style

Within a recent interview with FIFA. com, Leipzig and Germany U-17 teammate Nicolas Kühn praised Abouchabaka’s “ability to read play and his overall football intelligence”. The youngster's playmaking ability and creativity are his biggest assets, according to Kühn.

“Elias is great at setting up chances. We have been playing together because 2015 and have built up a good understanding”, stated the striker, who else nevertheless thinks their teammate could nevertheless improve his capturing off his weaker right foot.

Even though comparisons to Mesut Özil have been drawn by the German push, Abouchabaka has a different number 10 as his role product: Zinedine Zidane. “I first saw him at the 2006 Globe Cup, he influenced me to love football”, said the young talent who will turn to become not the next James or Mesut, but the first Elias Abouchabaka.

While the rest of the world waits with regard to Abouchabaka's first-team intro, you can go as well as sign him for your FIFA 18 profession mode squad to obtain a glimpse into Leipzig and Germany's future.