World News – UK – Moukoko becomes the youngest player in the UEFA Champions League

Tuesday 8. December 2020

Borussia Dortmund’s Youssoufa Moukoko has broken Céléstine Babayaro’s record as the youngest player in the history of the UEFA Champions League. We’re celebrating the youngest players to have entered Europe’s top club competition.

Zenit 1-2 Dortmund, 8. December 2020 Ten years (minus three days) after Céléstine Babayaro set the previous mark, Moukoko took the record. It was for the U-13s from St. Pauli was successful at the age of ten and moved to Dortmund in 2016. A year later he played for the U17s at 13 and the U19s. In January 2020, barely 15 years old, he was allowed to train with Dortmund’s first team. November, the day after he turned 16. Birthday, Moukoko became the youngest Bundesliga player of all time to replace Hertha. A little over two weeks later, after sitting on the bench twice in the UEFA Champions League, came his older European bow.

Steaua 1: 1 Anderlecht, 23. November 1994 The Nigerian left-back became the youngest player in UEFA Champions League history when he started for Anderlecht in Steaua in the 1994/95 group stage. However, his landmark debut set more than one record when Babayaro became the youngest player in the competition to be sent off 37 minutes later. He joined Chelsea in 1997 and won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and the FA Cup on Stamford Bridge.

Zenit 2-0 Lyon, 27. Introduced 74 minutes into OL’s game in Saint Petersburg after being an unused replacement three weeks earlier – when he could have broken Babayaro’s record – Cherki had made his Ligue 1 debut just the month before. The striker showed his prowess with four goals on three UEFA Youth League matchdays prior to promotion after winning the competition at the age of 15 last September.

Dinamo Zagreb 0-2 Paris Saint-Germain, 24. October 2012 Dinamo were well on their way to a home defeat to Paris when the Waif-esque Halilović plodded on in the final five minutes of stoppage time. Considered the most exciting Croatian talent since Luka Modrić, the son of former Dinamo player Sead Halilović was the youngest scorer in Prva Liga history two weeks earlier. The 24-year-old is still waiting for his breakthrough and has just switched to the English second division club Birmingham.

Anderlecht 0-3 Olympiacos, 2. October 2013Tielemans hit Anderlecht’s radar as a five-year-old and the midfielder made rapid progress up the ranks before playing the Belgian team’s 90-minute home defeat to Olympiacos in his UEFA Champions League debut. Before he was 20. He was the club’s captain for the 50th birthday and moved to Monaco in 2017 to help Belgium advance to the 2018 FIFA World Cup semi-finals. Came to Leicester City in 2019.

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