Fans of Scottish football club Celtic have quickly gotten used to seeing their new signing Moussa Dembele hit the back of the net - but it turns out the Belgian forward might not even be the most exciting Dembele at the club. 

13-year-old Karamoko Dembele made his debut for the club's Under-20 squad last night, coming off the bench for the final nine minutes of the club's 3-1 victory over Hearts and playing alongside players seven years his senior. 

The young Ivorian prodigy - who is not related to the senior team's Moussa Dembele - became something of a YouTube sensation earlier this year after a series of stunning displays at a boys' tournament which made it online, earning him the unenviable title of "the new Messi" from some of his more hyperbolic star. 

With many of Celtic's under-20 players away for international duty yesterday, the club's youth team decided to give their rising star a crack at U20 football, and the club's match report noted that "the diminutive playmaker did not look out of place". 

Watch a video of Dembele in action against players his own age below. 

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