The name of Youssofa Moukoko indeed might not sounds familiar to our ears. However, Dortmund’s wonderkid has proven to be quite popular lately. Of the seven times competed this season, the German national player has collected six goals. Moukoko is now known as ‘Lionel Messi from Africa’. All of these glorious achievements are certainly brilliant considering that he is not yet 15 years old.
This month, Youssofa Moukoko became the youngest player to appear at the UEFA Youth League. The award he won when defending Dortmund U-19 when facing Barcelona. At that time, he was only 14 years, 9 months and 28 days old. In this match, Moukoko successfully brought Dortmund a 2-1 victory over Barca.
Occasionally, the name Moukoko never did adorn the scoreboard. However, his brilliant performance proved to be able to make a club like Real Madrid . However, it seems that Moukoko still does not want to think of another club besides Dortmund. “My goal is to become a professional player with Dortmund. Win the Champions League with Borussia and win the Ballon d’Or.” The striker said from SportBild.
In the next eason 2021/2022, Moukoko can set a new record by becoming the youngest player in Dortmund and Bundesliga who debuted. Previously, the record was held by Nuri Sahin who debuted at the age of 16 years, 11 months and one day.
In the midst of the popularity of the name Moukoko, Dortmund junior team leader Lars Ricken spoke up. Ricken tried to calm the public a little to cool Moukoko’s popularity. “We will try to stay calm for now. But we will continue to monitor his performance.”
Said Ricken. “Just because he scores a lot of goals at the junior level doesn’t guarantee he will become a professional in the future.” However, if Moukoko can continue his impressive performance, then everything will only be answered by time.
Moukoko has actually taken a lot of attention since he was only 12 years old. At that time, he was able to steal the attention thanks to his two goals for Dortmund U-17 against his rival, Schalke.
At that time, the Cameroon-born teenager scored 40 goals during the season. In addition to scoring a lot of goals, Moukoko also managed to bring Dortmund to the top of the regional standings for the 2017/2018 season. In the 2018/2019 season Moukoko brought Dortmund back to the top of the Western Bundesliga. At that time he impressed by scoring six braces, six hat-tricks and scoring four additional goals in three playing opportunities.
When facing Wolfsburg in the Western Conference Bundesliga semifinals, Moukoko contributed two of Die Borussen’s four winning goals in the first leg. In the second leg, the Cameroon-born teenager again scored one goal against Wolfsburg. After that, his resounding performance continued at the top of the B-Junioren Bundesliga party. Entertaining Cologne, Moukoko also scored one goal for his club.
This miraculous achievement of this magical boy continues to this season. Until now, Moukoko continues to deliver his classy hat-tricks. One goal against Viktoria Koln successfully fulfilled his collection of goals to 10 goals this season. In addition, his kit against RW Oberhausen also completed his tally to 15 goals in seven league appearances this season.
This entry automatically makes Moukoko has now collected 105 goals from 65 appearances since riding from Dortmund U-15. And now, Moukoko continues to pursue the record of the best Dortmund players like Mario Gtze and Marco Reus.
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