He broke the youngest record in the Bundesliga, once Germany s Yamal. He is known as a genius, but now he has no ball to play!

As the five major European leagues are about to end, the newly restructured Club World Cup will also make its debut. This time, the Club World Cup has almost become a club version of the World Cup, gathering the best teams on all continents to present a visual feast to football fans. Not long ago, a news came from Dortmund, who played for the Bundesliga, that is, the team will not recall Yusufa Mukoko, who is loaned to Nice in advance. This move claimed to the public to save money, but experts and media determined a key point based on Dortmund's operation, that is, it will be difficult for Mukoko to return to Dortmund in the future. Who would have thought that this genius, who is nominally only 21 years old, has now fallen into an extremely embarrassing situation. Let’s take a look at how this former genius fell from the altar step by step!

1. A genius boy who caused a sensation in Germany made his Bundesliga debut at the age of 16.

Although born in Cameroon, Mukoko followed his mother to Hamburg, Germany when he was 10 years old and lived with his father. At the same time, he loves football and has also received the attention of the local football club St. Pauli scouts. After consultation with Mukoko's parents, he became a member of the youth team. In the next two seasons, he represented the St. Pauli youth team in 13 games and scored 23 goals, and his ability stood out among his peers. Dortmund scouts, one of the Bundesliga giants, also noticed this little guy. After seeing his incredible talent and learning that he was born in 2004, he took him to Dortmund's youth team without any hesitation. After receiving more professional training, Mukoko seemed to have been opened to Ren and Du meridians. In the 17-18 Bundesliga U17 League, the 13-year-old scored 37 goals, helping the team win the championship. By the 18-19 season, at the age of 14, he jumped to the level and became a member of Dortmund's U19, and scored 46 goals that made history in the U17 league.

In addition, after officially representing Dortmund U19 youth team, he scored a large double-double with 38 goals and 10 assists in the 19-20 season, breaking the German Youth A-level goal record. In fact, he was recruited into the first team that season, but the Bundesliga stipulated that players under the age of 16 were unable to participate in the game, so it was not until the 20-21 season that Mukoko got his first-team debut for Dortmund. On November 21, 2020, Mukoko, who had just celebrated his 16th birthday, made a substitute for the team, breaking the record for the youngest debut in the Bundesliga. Just one month later, at the age of 16 and 28 days, he scored his first goal in the Bundesliga, breaking the youngest goal record in the Bundesliga. Although he only played 14 times throughout the season, he contributed 3 goals. Considering that he is only 16 years old, this is definitely a pretty good performance. In the eyes of the German media, this guy is definitely the core of Germany in the future and will break a series of records. Unfortunately, however, the turning point occurred, which greatly affected Mukoko's career.

2. The age fraud storm has fallen into a crisis of trust.

During the 21-22 season, Mukoko played 16 games for Dortmund's first team and contributed 2 goals. Although his performance was not that impressive, even so, Frick, who was the head coach of the German national team, unexpectedly put Mukoko in the official roster for the Qatar World Cup. Although he failed to score any goals and assists, he made a substitute at the last moment in the competition with the Japanese team. It was precisely because of this that he became the youngest player in the history of the German team to make his World Cup debut at the age of 18 and 3 days. Back in the Bundesliga, although he encountered injuries in the 22-23 season, Mukoko's performance this season is still good, playing in a total of 26 games and scoring a career-high 7 goals. Judging from his growth rate, he will definitely be a big killer on the team's offensive end in the future. It is no luxury to help Dortmund revive again. But one off-site news attracted people's attention, that is, Mukoko's age fraud incident. German Bunte magazine disclosed his birth certificate, of which the year was striking 2,000, which also fermented rapidly at that time, causing considerable controversy. What makes Dortmund's public relations team even more trouble is that the issue of Mukoko's age fraud is not just a birth certificate. His adoptive father Joseph doesn't know if his head is short-circuited. In the documentary about Mukoko's growth, he actually admitted that they were forging his birth certificate and changing his age to 4 years younger. And this means that when Mukoko first entered the Bundesliga, he was actually 20 years old. What is even more ironic is that after a later investigation, it was found that some people inside Dortmund were deliberately concealed. Ricken, the then youth training director, was said to have known about Mukoko's age fraud for a long time. For this reason, he even paid a "hush money" to Mukoko's adoptive parents through the team's sponsor. Although Dortmund chose to deal with it coldly, after the news was exposed, Dortmund's later operations were also intriguing. In the 23-24 season, Mukoko only got 27 opportunities to appear, and most of the time he played as a substitute. Even though he scored 6 goals, the team had no intention of leaving him and rented him to the Nice Club last summer.

3. In the future, he will gradually sink into the fall of Ligue 1, and he may completely hurt Zhongyong.

After coming to the Ligue 1 field, although he performed two shots and one pass in the team's 8-0 victory over Saint-Etienne, he never scored any goals after this game. He played in 22 games throughout the year, contributing 2 goals and 2 assists in total.. Although some fans firmly believe that Mukoko's age is not fake, it has been five years since he made his debut in the Bundesliga in 2020. According to the official age of 21, although he is still relatively young, he has 5 years of experience in the top professional league. Logically speaking, it should not be so difficult. Therefore, it seems that no matter whether there is a fraud problem with his age, he may have become an injury to Zhongyong. With Dortmund unwilling to let him return to the team early to participate in the Club World Cup and his poor performance in Nice, he may be in a situation where he has no ball to play this summer, which is probably the most absurd thing for Mukoko.