Meet Tacko Fall, 18-year-old World’s Tallest Youth Basket Baller

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He is 7ft 5in tall, has an eight-foot wingspan and wears size 22 shoes – meet Tacko ‘Taco’ Fall one of the tallest basketball players in the world.

Fall is so tall that he is almost able to put the ball in the basket with barely a jump and is mobbed wherever he appears as a junior centre on the Tavares Liberty Christian Prep team in Florida.

He said: “Everywhere I go, people want to take pictures, talk to me, shake my hand, but I am getting used to it now.

“Every once in a while I forget to duck when I walk through a door and I hit my head on a ceiling fan recently. It almost knocked me out. It hurt.”

Fall eats entire pizzas covered in chicken and hamburger to keep weight on his 250-pound frame and stands a good half-foot taller than any other player in his league.

He even has a seven-year-old brother who already stands 5 ft 9ins.

But playing basketball professionally is not his biggest dream. He wants to be a biochemist.