Moukoko's 'true' age, back on the table

Youssoufa Moukoko, were 16 years old and 18 days when it made history when being the youngest player in debuting in the Champions League. However, his name already was common in Germany, where carried years beating records in the juvenile categories Borussia Dortmund. The forward, in his adolescence, turned into an important player in the Signal Iduna Park during 2021 and 2021.

His career continued in promotion and, with 18 years, the born forward in Cameroon, but naturalised German, went the youngest footballer in contesting the World-wide past. Although this Friday, the newspaper germano 'Bunte' published a supposed game of birth that signals that the youngster was born in the year 2000, four years before the age indicated in his document of current identity.

It saved the Barça?

According to this information, Moukoko would have been born on 19 July of the 2000 instead of 20 November 2004; and, clear, would not be a teenager of 18 years, but a young adult of 22. Equally, the document in question indicates that the progenitors of the born in Cameroon are Ousman Mohamadou and Youssoufa Harira, whereas in the German registers his official father is Joseph Moukoko.

The uncertainty about his date of birth are not new since this same year, a report of 'Der Spegiel' already put in doubt the age of the attacker that was in folder of the FC Barcelona in front of his possible no renewal with the Dortmund. On this controversy in Germany indicate that the footballer try to brake the publication of 'Bunte', but the Regional Court of Frankfurt resolved that "it is allowed to inform on the doubts about the real age and the origin of the professional footballer object of the complaint".

A good course, but with a lot of interrogantes

In the meantime, the international German, in spite of his current injury, is signing a good campaign in Dortmund maracando 6 goals in 18 parties in the Bundesliga, where his team shares leadership with the Bayern of Munich. Andto renewed with the German team, the attacker will have to resolve what before this subject if it wants to can give the jump to a big team without having the doubts of if really it has 4 years more than what indicate his official registers.