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Moussa Wagué
Wagué playing for Senegal at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Moussa Wagué[1]
Date of birth (1998-10-04) 4 October 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Bignona, Senegal[2]
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[3]
Position(s) Right back
Team information
Current team
 Barcelona B
Youth career
2014–2016 Aspire Academy
2016–2017 Eupen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2018 Eupen 40 (1)
2018– Barcelona B 20 (2)
2019– Barcelona 3 (0)
International career‡
2015 Senegal U20 7 (0)
2017– Senegal 14 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:13, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 March 2019

Moussa Wagué (born 4 October 1998) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a right back for Spanish club FC Barcelona B and the Senegal national team.

Club career

Wagué joined Eupen from the Aspire Academy in November 2016.[4] He made his professional debut in a 0–1 loss to Genk on 21 January 2017.[5]

In August 2018, Wagué completed a transfer from Eupen to FC Barcelona, for a fee of €5 Million. He initially joined Barcelona's B Team to begin the 2018-2019 Season. [6] On 13 January 2019, Wagué scored his first goal for Barcelona B in a 2-0 win at the Miniestadi against CD Alcoyano. [7]

Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde named Wagué as one of the five promising young players to whom he hoped to give first team opportunities. [8] Wagué made his senior side debut on 6 March 2019, starting and playing the full 90 minutes of the Catalan Super Cup against Girona.[9] On 13 April 2019, he made his official debut in a La Liga match against Huesca where he played a full 90 minutes; he described it as a "dream come true".[10] Wagué again featured for the first team on 4 May 2019, impressing despite Barcelona's 0-2 defeat to Celta Vigo. [11] He would appear once more in Barcelona's La Liga finale, coming on as a second half substitute in a 2-2 draw with Eibar.

International career

Wagué was part of the Senegal U20s that came in 4th place at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[12] Wagué made his senior international debut in a friendly 1–1 tie with Nigeria on 23 March 2017.[13][14]

In May 2018 he was named in Senegal's 23 man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[15] He became the youngest African goalscorer in World Cup history when he scored in Senegal's match against Japan.[16]

Career statistics

Club

As of 19 May 2019
Club League Season League Cup Europe Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Eupen Belgian First Division A 2016–17 14 1 1 0 — 15 1
Belgian First Division A 2017–18 26 0 2 0 — 28 0
Total 40 1 3 0 — 43 1
Barcelona B Segunda División B 2018–19 20 2 0 0 — 19 2
Total 20 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 2
Barcelona La Liga 2018–19 3 0 1 0 0 0 — 4 0
Total 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Career total 63 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 67 3

International

As of 31 March 2019[17]
Senegal
Year Apps Goals
2017 6 0
2018 6 1
2019 2 0
Total 14 1

International goal

As of match played 24 June 2018. Senegal score listed first, score column indicates score after each Wagué goal.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 24 June 2018 Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg, Russia  Japan
2–1
2–2
 2018 FIFA World Cup

Honours

Barcelona

References

  1. ^ "Acta del Partido celebrado el 04 de mayo de 2019, en Vigo" [Minutes of the Match held on 4 May 2019, in Vigo] (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  2. ^ GALSENFOOT. "MOUSSA WAGUÉ NE VEUT PAS SE PROJETER PLUS LOIN QUE LA CAN U 23Galsenfoot". galsenfoot.com. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Moussa Wague quitte l'Aspire Academy vers la KAS Eupen". AS Eupen (in French). 20 October 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  5. ^ "BELGIQUE, Ligue Jupiler AS Eupen-Racing Genk: 0 – 1 – Football". Maxifoot. Advimedia. 21 January 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Teenager Moussa Wague Joins Barcelona After Impressive World Cup". Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  7. ^ "Barça B 2-0 CD Alcoyano: First win of the year". FC Barcelona. FC Barcelona. 13 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Barcelona's Chosen 5: How Much Potential Do La Masia's New Generation Have?". Bleacher Report. Bleacher Report. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  9. ^ "Todibo makes Barça debut". FC Barcelona. FC Barcelona. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  10. ^ "Moussa Wague: Barcelona defender's La Liga debut 'a dream come true'". 14 April 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  11. ^ "The boys from La Masia impressed more than Barcelona's usual substitutes". Marca. Marca. 4 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  12. ^ "Tournois FIFA Joueurs & Entraîneurs – Moussa WAGUE". FIFA.com (in French). Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Nigeria v Senegal". BBC Sport. BBC. 23 March 2017.
  14. ^ La Rédaction (23 March 2007). "Amical : Nigeria et Sénégal se quittent bons amis". Afrik Foot. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  15. ^ "Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad - final 23-man lists". Goal.com. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  16. ^ "Wague And Honda Make History With World Cup Goals". BeIN Sports. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Moussa Wagué". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
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