Do you remember any fairytales in football lately? If not, listen to this.

Striker Tomi Petrescu, who turns 16 next Tuesday, will be in the Leicester City squad to face JJK Jyväskylä on Sunday.

On Friday the wonder-boy of Finnish football trained with City´s first team and won applause from the senior players with his silky skills. City manager Micky Adams did not hesitate to promote Petrescu, who last season played for Leicester City Youth Academy U-17 team, to the first team after Dennis Wise left the pre-season camp.

Tomi is in squad on merit, not just because we were suddenly one man short or because we play in his home-town on Sunday. He was supposed to train with the first team squad anyway during this trip, so in that sense there is nothing extraordinary.

Tomi is a very, very talented player and he keeps on working hard he can achieve anything, Adams said,

"Tomi Petrescu knows his teammates, because he spent most of last season training at Belvoir Drive with the Academy squads. And a couple of times he has trained with the first team players."

Petrescu duly admits that he only expects to play five minutes or so as a substitute on Sunday. And with Dickov, Deane, Scowcroft, Stevenson, Benjamin and Piper all ready to bang in the goals in the Nationwide and Tommy Wright and others waiting for their chance Petrescu will happily settle for a place in the U17 team next season.

"I know I am not much of a player yet compared with strikers like Dickov and Scowcroft, but I can learn so much just by training with them. I am delighted and excited to be given this opportunity." Petrescu said.

Leicester City have hopes of Petrescu. A year ago Academy director Alan Hill personally travelled to Finland to meet Tomi and his parents after the Finnish Youth International impressed when he visited Belvoir Drive thanks to the link-up between JJK and Leicester City.

"Before Tomi signed for Leicester we were also contacted by five or six other European clubs, including Napoli and FC Metz. And Tomi was only 14 at that time. He is a natural goalscorer" said the JJK chairman Janne Särkkä.

Tomi signed a five-year deal with Leicester City last summer. He attends a school in Leicester and admits he enjoys every minute of his life in the Midlands.

"The city of Leicester is similar to Jyväskylä in many ways, so I have settled in quite easily. And I think so highly of the Academy coaches that I can´t wait to get back to Belvoir Drive and go on working with them" smiles Petrescu.

He was supposed to be on his way back to Leicester with the first team squad on Tuesday. But the Finnish U-17 international team has some kind of training camp next week, so the hard work at Belvoir Drive has to wait a couple of more days for Tomi.

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