With 16-year-old Jonah Kusi-Asare, German soccer record champions FC Bayern Munich landed a real dream player on Thursday. The joy about the transfer is mutual, because the Swedish storm jewel sees itself as having arrived at the “biggest club in the world”.
The name Jonah Kusi-Asare appeared in the FC Bayern Munich rumor mill two years ago. The teenager held a trial training session at the Säbener Straße club twice.
Since Thursday morning, the 16-year-old storm talent’s change has been perfect. As FC Bayern reported, Kusi-Asare signed a “long-term contract” with the Munich team. The attacker will now be gradually introduced to the Bayern professionals via the U19 team.
Kusi-Asare, who is considered one of the greatest European talents of his year, cannot yet believe his luck.
“It’s an indescribable feeling,” he revealed in the club interview on the club’s website: “I’m very happy to now be at what I consider to be the biggest club in the world and to have signed here. It’s a special day for me. “
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FC Bayern is also “very big” in his home country, the new signing revealed: “People in Sweden follow the players in the Champions League or Bundesliga very intensively.”
Before signing with Bayern, however, Kusi-Asare consulted with a compatriot who was two years older than him and who had moved to the Munich U19 in 2022 – and now plays for FCB’s second team in the Bavarian Regional League.
“Yes, I spoke to Matteo Perez Vinlöf from the amateurs,” reported the Swedish U17 international: “He could only tell me good things about FC Bayern and the youth work. I’m looking forward to meeting him here.”
Kusi-Asare celebrated his debut in the Swedish first division in the AIK Solna jersey this season and made a total of four short appearances. Things shouldn’t happen quite as quickly for him at FC Bayern, as he himself can realistically estimate.
“In the coming weeks I would like to settle in here in Munich as quickly as possible. I’m looking forward to the first training sessions and want to constantly improve,” explained the young striker about his short-term goals on the Isar.