Youssoufa Moukoko: Meet  the youngest player at the Qatar FIFA World Cup

Borussia Dortmund and Germany forward Youssoufa Moukoko will be the youngest player to feature in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

The lad who has been making the headlines with his explosive and impressive style of playing tops the list of the youngest players going in to the world.

Moukoko will clock 18 years old on Sunday November 20 when the world cup kicks off.

He is the Bundesliga’s youngest debutant and goalscorer, and among the prospects to play for the senior Germany national team.

Born in Yaoundé in November 2004, Moukoko spent the first 10 years of his life living with his grandparents in Cameroon’s capital city before joining his father, a German citizen since 1990s, in Hamburg in the summer of 2014.

Having impressed through the youth cadres of the team, he was promoted to Dortmund’s first-team training in January 2020, some 11 months before his 16th birthday.

He wrote his name into the history books as the Bundesliga’s youngest scorer with his goal against Union Berlin on Matchday 13 of 2019/20 season making him – at 16 years and 28 days – almost a year younger than previous incumbent Florian Wirtz on his first goal.

Moukoko’s appearance against Zenit Saint Petersburg also made him the UEFA Champions League’s youngest player, aged 16 years and 19 days of age.

Expectedly, the World Cup call-up was seen as as reward for his six goals and four assists across 14 Bundesliga appearances in the current season.

He will be looking forward to further make more history in the mundial as Germany plays their way through the group stage against Spain, Costa Rica and Japan in Group E.

Interestingly, Youssoufa’s Elder brother Borel, 22, is a left-back who currently plays in the Kosovan first tier with Ferizaj