BOY WONDER

FROM BEING A CHELSEA YOUTH ACADEMY PRODUCT TO JOINING BAYERN MUNICH, JAMAL MUSIALA IS FAST BECOMING ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING FOOTBALLERS IN GERMANY AND THE WORLD OVER

- Dylan Appolis

Jamal Musiala was born in Stuttgart, Germany and lived in the suburb of Fulda until the age of seven, where he played for TSV Lehnerz before moving to England.

He spent four months playing with Southampton before being spotted by Chelsea, where he spent the last years of his childhood, from 2011 to 2019, until he left England to return to Germany.

Musiala left the Blues in 2019 to join Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich's youth academy set-up, where he swiftly made his way through the ranks to earn himself a promotion to the first team in July 2020.

The attacking midfielder made his Bundesliga debut against SC Freiburg in Munich on 20 June 2020 to become the youngest player to feature for Bayern in the Bundesliga at the age of 17 years and 115 days, and although that would be his only appearance for that season, he formed part of the same Bayern squad that won the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League title.

Exactly 90 days later, he also became the Bavarian club's all-time youngest goal scorer at 17 years and 205 days, when he found the back of the net in Bayern's 8-0 hammering of Schalke on the opening day of 2020-21, breaking the record previously set by an 18-year-old Roque Santa Cruz in 1999.