Samuel-Iling Junior, born on 4th October, 2003, is a winger or a wing-back currently playing at EFL Championship club Middlesbrough on loan from Premier League side Aston Villa. Samuel is a youth product of Chelsea and Juventus, spending the majority of his youth career at Chelsea and then Juventus. Samuel joined Chelsea's academy when he was just eight years old and spent nine years at the club, where he progressed rapidly playing for the U19 side at the age of 16 years old. He decided to leave Chelsea in 2019, rejecting an athletic scholarship deal from them, and had various clubs, namely Paris-Saint Germain, Bayern Munich, and Juventus, interested in him. Ultimately, he joined Juventus in 2020 on a three-year contract, where he honoured his deal and then joined Aston Villa as part of a double transfer alongside Enzo Barrenechea.