Luke Littler, 16, makes it to the final of the World Darts Championship and becomes the star of an entire country

In a kingdom where darts is the national sport, Luke “The Nuke” breaks records for precocity and ignites the crowds in London, where the world championship is currently being played.

Double 10 to finish without trembling and handily win his semi-final at the World Darts Championship, mastered from start to finish in front of 10,000 excited spectators. Impassive, as usual, the young man in a yellow and purple polo shirt covered with sponsors impresses with his calm and regularity. Luke Littler: this is the name of the teenager who is currently exciting England. He will compete in the World Darts final on Wednesday January 3, which is currently taking place in London.

At the age of 16, he created a sensation in a country that was passionate about this discipline, most often practiced in pubs. All of England goes up in flames and he can’t believe it. “That’s crazy !said Luke Littler. Crazy to tell me that I’m in the final of the world championship!” Especially since to get there, he had to eliminate all his idols one by one, until Rob Cross in the semi-final, another Englishman, world champion five years ago.

Followed by hundreds of thousands of fans on social networks, this Manchester United fan continues to break precocity records. Double junior world champion, he is the youngest darts player to reach the final of the senior world championship since its creation in 1978. A true darts prodigy, he once again commanded, on Tuesday evening, the admiration of the commentators of the British channel Sky Sport which broadcast the meeting.

Luke “The Nuke”

He became Luke “The nuke”, the atomic bomb in French, its nickname. He, the young boy who lives in Warrington, between Liverpool and Manchester, is barely professional and is the pride of his girlfriend and his parents, into whose arms he falls after each victory.

“I’m going to do the usual for the final: a ham and cheese omelette for breakfast then come to the gym to train, eat a pizza, because that’s what I did every day.”

Luke Littler

in an interview with Sky Sports

If he becomes world champion on Wednesday evening by winning against his compatriot Luke Humphries, world number 1, he will pocket more than 570,000 euros. Enough to celebrate his 17th birthday with dignity, on January 21.