After this article was published we were contacted by Madin's mother, who wanted to precise some of the details given, which have now been modified. She stressed that her and her husband take great care in protecting their son and that they are not planning to throw him to the lions by signing him up with an agent.

A seven-year-old French boy hit the headlines in Britain this week after videos of his fancy footwork became a massive online hit with over a million views. The UK tabloid press hailed him as the next Zinedine Zidane and reported various tall tales about the schoolboy, who was only six when the video was filmed.

Both the British and the Spanish press were in raptures over the boy, even reporting that he'd received calls from football clubs Real Madrid and Chelsea.

But with a bit of research, they would have found out that the video was over a year old. Madin Koroghli (not Mohammed), from northern French town Roubaix, is seven-years-old, not six as was said in the British papers. He'd already had his 15 minutes of fame in his home country after appearing on French channel TF1's Téléfoot programme. And yet he hadn't been headhunted by any foreign clubs. In fact this season he's playing at... Lille OSC, for free.

Two people who've seen this young footballer play tell us what they think about the Madin phenomenon - is he the next Zidane or just a kid with fancy footwork?

Do you follow football? What do you think - is Madin the next Zidane?