I’m an Arsenal U21 star who was making six figures as a 16 year old… but not from football

REUELL WALTERS is a whizkid on the pitch and online – after raking in £10,000 a night from Fortnite aged just 16.

The Arsenal Under-21 star found an incredible way to help his friends AND his bank balance.

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Reuell Walters made a small fortune thanks to Fortnite after joining Arsenal[/caption]

The ex-Tottenham schoolboy, now 18, devised a map for the popular video game during the coronavirus lockdown.

And it was so lucrative that the England Under-19 defender’s first tax bill was into SIX FIGURES!

It’s also estimated his map was used 250million times in one week.

And as the Londoner gets a royalty fee every time it’s played, that meant his nightly earnings peaked at 10,000 to 15,000 dollars (£8k to £12k).

In a video posted by 101GreatGoals, linking to UnderArmour, Walters said: “Obviously we weren’t allowed to leave our homes so I picked up a different hobby where everyone loves the game.

I think as a teenage boy I was playing Fortnite with my friends and they were talking to me about how they just wanted to play this game mode and how it hadn’t been made before.

“So I just decided, you know, I’ll make something for them to play.”

He added: “It was probably one of the first things that was made in lockdown.

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“It was not viral but you know people started to play with other people and you know it started to take off from there.”

Now the right-back is hoping for the same lift-off for his football career – as he dreams of nearing the first-team squad this season.