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#3 Youngest African goal scorer at a World Cup - 19 years and 263 days
Senegal’s Moussa Wague scored his team’s second goal in their group stage game against Japan and it was only the second goal by a teenager at the World Cup in Russia after Kylian Mbappe.
Wague, a right-back, was an unlikely scorer but the Eupen player earned a place in the record books with his first ever goal for Senegal.
Aged 19 years and 236 days, he became the youngest African player to score at a FIFA World Cup and took the place of Ghana’s Haminu Draman who scored at the age of 20 years and 82 days against USA at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Speaking after the game against Japan, Wague was ecstatic.
“I couldn’t even describe my goal to you, I got on the ball, I saw the goal, I hit it, and I scored. It still feels crazy. My first goal at the World Cup – I couldn’t have dreamed of anything better.”
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