Bundesliga
the 18-year-old Musiala is starting to shine at Bayern. The super-talent dumped England, represents Germany
Jamal Musiala is one of the other amazing youngsters who have a great future ahead of them. At the age of 18, he has already started to make his mark in Bayern’s A-team, and he is already touring regularly with the German national team.
Jamal Musiala is one of the other amazing youngsters who have a great future ahead of them. At the age of 18, he has already started to make his mark in Bayern’s A-team, and he is already touring regularly with the German national team.
Jamal Musiala was born in Stuttgart in 2003 to a British-Nigerian father and German mother. He moved to England with his family at the age of seven, where he spent most of his childhood, and also started playing for Chelsea’s academy.
In June 2019, when Musial turned 16, he swapped Chelsea for Bayern Munich. And it was a great decision. On 20 June 2020, he will make his debut in a Bayern jersey in the Bundesliga against Freiburg. At the age of 17 years and 115 days, he became the youngest player ever to play for Bayern in the Bundesliga.
18. on September 2020, he scored his first Bundesliga goal for Bayern against Schalke in an 8:0 win, becoming the youngest ever Bayern Munich goal scorer. However, Musiala continued to tear up records, scoring in the Champions League against Lazio on 23 February 2021, becoming the youngest ever goalscorer in the history of the competition for both the English and German international.
Yes, Musiala has both nationalities. He has represented both England and Germany at youth level. He started for England U15, then added two starts for Germany U16. He then played again for Albion, for whom he played in the U16, U17 and last year U21 squads.
Germany continued to be interested in Musial, but Jamal opted for England first. According to him, he felt more comfortable there as he grew up there all his childhood. But in February 2021, Musiala announced his decision to play for the German national team. He was immediately nominated for the World Cup qualifiers, and he also made it to the EURO, where he appeared in 2 games.
Musiala is a huge talent, so it’s no wonder that both national teams were fighting for him. Last season in the Bundesliga he started 26 games for Bayern, scoring 6 goals and adding 1 assist. He also scored once in 6 Champions League games.
This season he is slowly gaining more and more attention. In 4 Bundesliga games he scored 2 goals and assisted 2 more. He also scored two goals in the DFB Pokal.
He started on the bench in the weekend’s game against Leipzig, replaced Gnabry at half-time at 1:0 to Bayern and started officiating. Already in the 47th minute Musiala increased the score to 2: 0 for Bayern, in the 54th minute he set up a goal for Sané, Bayern won 4: 1.
This earned him a nomination for the starting line-up in the Champions League against Barcelona. He definitely impressed with his performance, his speed and ball work is on a huge level for an 18 year old youngster. He also scored an assist for Robert Lewandowski’s first goal.
Bayern are thus developing another huge talent who can replace the Polish sniper in the future.
Source: Livesport, Wikipedia