The FIFA World Cup is getting closer, and the national teams are composing those preliminary, provisional squads with many familiar names on them. Especially those European sides, which are accustomed to having more than a few African-born players on the list. One of them is definitely Germany, with Hansi Flick’s team already depending heavily on Rudiger, Sane, Gnabry, Khedira…However, according to BILD, the German boss is ready to put in some new names to the squad for the Qatar tournament. Moukoko, Götze and Füllkrug have made Germany’s provisional World Cup squad according to Sport Bild. No Mukhtar though… Flick and the DFB planned to keep their 55 player provisional squad a secret. pic.twitter.com/iYZadjv2w0— Manuel Veth (@ManuelVeth) October 24, 2022 When it comes to attacking, he depends massively on Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, but both current and former Chelsea forward are not praised too much for their goal-scoring percentage. That’s why Flick will go for other options, much younger, Dortmund-based and more African. Besides Karim Adeyemi, 20, whose father is Nigerian, the national team kit is also prepared for his teammate Youssoufa Moukoko. The 17-year-old striker born in Yaounde spent the first ten years of his life in Cameroon’s capital with his grandparents. His father, who has lived in Hamburg as a German citizen since the 1990s, brought his son to Germany in the summer of 2014. Eto’o fires a buzzer-beater to snatch prodigious Moukoko from the German national teamOn 8 December, Moukoko made his debut for Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League as a substitute against Zenit Saint Petersburg, becoming the youngest player in the competition’s history at the age of 16 years and 18 days. He broke the record previously held by Celestine Babayaro of 16 years and 87 days.##NAJAVA_MECA_6757252##Moukoko made his first start for Dortmund in the Bundesliga on 15 December against Werder Bremen and scored his first goal three days later against Union Berlin. In doing so, he became the youngest goalscorer in Bundesliga history at the age of 16 years and 28 days.Moreover, Moukoko is enjoying an impressive season at Borussia Dortmund. He’s got four goals and five assists to his name this season, despite only getting 756 minutes of playing time so far. And he has established himself as BVB’s first-choice striker in recent weeks.Moukoko is currently a Germany U-21s international and has scored six goals in just five appearances for them. It remains to be seen if the highly-rated striker will be called up to the senior team for the World Cup. But if he gets the opportunity, it would certainly be well deserved, considering the form he is in at the moment.
