Moukoko, the new 15-year-old Haaland

Youssoufa Moukoko's time has come. The German striker of Cameroonian origin is one of the most precious jewels of the Borussia Dortmund youth team and will start the preseason for the next course with the BVB first team. He will do so with only 15 years old and after signing several seasons in the inferiors of the Borusser entity that made it clear that Moukoko is one of the pearls to consider in the European panorama. The current season ended, suspended as a result of the coronavirus, with 38 goals in 28 games, knocking on the door of a first team that did not think twice and decided to count on him for the next course that will start in September.

“We are very interested in including our youth from the quarry in our professional team. This week I was talking to the coach about Moukoko and we decided to integrate him into the first team squad, “said Michael Zorc, head of the club's sports area. The objective is “to learn immediately to train side by side with the professionals”, clarified Zorc, main architect of modern Dortmund and responsible for transfers such as Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho or Robert Lewandowski in his day. Moukoko, an out of series that with 12 years old already marked hat-tricks with the Sub17 of the BVB, may be next.

The striker himself aims high. “To be honest, my goal is to become a professional player in Dortmund, conquer the Champions League with BVB and win the Ballon d'Or“, he went on to say in an interview back in 2018. Since then he has not stopped. 40 goals in 28 games in the 17/18 season (with 12 years old), another 50 more in the 18/19 and the 38 that this course had with Sub19. The next will start training with Haaland and, at the latest, in November he will be able to debut in the Bundesliga. It will be then when he turns 16 years old, the minimum age to play in the German elite. Before, you could only debut with 18, but the federation changed the norm. Among others by Moukoko.