BVB jewel Moukoko announces return of national team

Borussia Dortmund’s top talent Youssoufa Moukoko has announced a return to the German national team. The 14-year-old announced via Snapchat that he would soon be running for the DFB again.

Moukoko wrote: “I’m back soon”, and set three German flags behind it. Previously, the BVB-U19 star had been released from the national team operations by the club and the DFB due to the hypes about his person. He played his last international match in October 2017 for the German U16 (4:2 against Belgium).

“It is important to us that he concentrates first of all on the school and the club – and the already huge hype around him doesn’t get any bigger”, said BVB youth coach Michael Skibbe to the picture.

BVB Sports Director Michael Zorc, however, sees Moukoko in the DFB junior teams again in the long term: “If Youssoufa has expressed the wish to play for Germany in the long term, I naturally welcome that,” Michael Zorc is quoted in the picture.

“I believe that this step is very important for his development,” commented Meikel Schönweitz, head coach of the U national teams and especially Christian Wörns, coach of the German U18 national team, who hopes that Moukoko will soon make a comeback at the DFB: “We would like to see him play for us again,” he said.

This summer, Moukoko switched from BVB U17 to U19 and scored six goals at his U19 Bundesliga debut last weekend in a 9-2 win over Wuppertal.