Youssoufa Moukoko hadn’t scored since netting for Germany’s U-21 national team last November. His dry spell has now come to an end in a stadium with a meaningful name.
Youssoufa Moukoko has scored a goal. In the summer of 2025, this sentence will be entirely justified, as the former German striker had to wait a long time for such a personal success.
Nine months after scoring for Germany’s U21 team on November 15 at Aachen’s Tivoli Stadium against Denmark (3-0), the now 20-year-old Moukoko celebrated his new club FC Copenhagen’s 3-1 victory in the Danish league match against FC Nordsjaelland.
A huge weight was lifted from the shoulders of the attacking player, who joined the club from Borussia Dortmund. “I’ve had a lot of chances recently, and now it’s finally worked out,” said Moukoko after his debut goal, which made it 1-1 in the 59th minute and turned the tide for FC. “It was great to score my first goal for the club, of course.”
His teammates Pantelis Hatzidiakos and Yoram Zague secured the victory for the capital club in the final quarter of an hour, cementing their place at the top of the Danish top flight with their fourth win in five games.
Double strike in Ligue 1
At club level, Moukoko, who moved from Dortmund to Copenhagen for five million euros, had to wait a lot longer for his first goal. His name last appeared on the scoresheet in September 2024 in a game for French first division side OGC Nice. He even scored twice in the southern French side’s resounding 8-0 win over AS St. Etienne, but those were to be his only successes during his loan spell from BVB to Ligue 1.
On Friday evening, he finally got his chance in the small Danish town of Farum. In front of 6,687 fans at FC Nordsjaelland’s Right to Dream Park. Is it a stadium name that allows Moukoko to dream? “I’d like to continue that,” said the Cameroon-born player after his header. “So hopefully it was just one of many, many goals for FC Copenhagen.”
Ideally, from his point of view, that will be on Wednesday, when he and his team face Swiss double winners FC Basel and his former Dortmund teammate Moritz Broschinski in the Champions League play-offs.
