Again there’s a fuss about Youssoufa Moukoko’s age

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Another fuss about Youssoufa Moukoko

He is on loan from Dortmund to Nice. Now there is a stir again about Youssoufa Moukoko – and not on a sporting level.

Youssoufa Moukoko came to the professionals via Borussia Dortmund’s youth teams. In the summer he moved to Nice on loan. In the past, various media outlets have speculated about the 20-year-old’s age.

Now “Bild” reports that Hamburger Joseph Moukoko, who has always appeared as the striker’s father, is apparently not the player’s biological father. This emerges from a new affidavit available to the newspaper.

The ProSieben documentary “Tricking, Cheating, Deceiving – The million-dollar business with football talent” will also be released on Sunday (from 7 p.m.). Udo Ludwig (sports journalist), Martin Heidemanns (journalist), Diana Löbl (producer) and Peter Onneken (producer) researched Moukoko for two years. The documentary is also said to provide new insights into the Moukoko case.

As “Bild” reports, Joseph Moukoko has his say in the documentary. Among other things, he is said to claim that he “obtained a false birth certificate” for Youssoufa Moukoko in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and made him “four years younger.”

BVB communications director Sascha Fligge told “Bild” when asked about the supposedly new findings: “In the case of Youssoufa Moukoko, the biological parents can be found from official identification documents and birth certificates that were issued by a German authority. These documents are still valid today Day in existence and are the basis for playing rights and approvals for clubs, regardless of whether they are domestic or foreign, and of course for association selection teams like the German one U21 national team.”