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Latin America is probably the most likely breeding ground, I agree. The next really great player will have to have some exceptional physical and mental characteristics, but will be most likely to hone them in a situation where, from a very young age, he intensively plays "street football" to very high standards, and then is talent-spotted and trained within the club system to professional standards.I mean a player that can score, pass and dribble at insane levels in very unlikely to be seen soon but someone with at least two of those qualities is very likely to appear in Brazil or Argentina.
In much of the global South outside Latin America, you might have the street football, but you don't have a strong domestic football infrastructure or a good spread of talent spotters. In the developed world, you have decent infrastructure for training youth, but nowhere near the same kind of intensity in recreational football for youngsters.