The 5 youngest debutants in football history

Currently, precocity records in the world of football are constantly being broken. Because the players want it Lamine Yamalit doesn’t seem strange to us that a kid who is only 17 years old or younger is acting on the field like a professional with several years of experience behind him.

The same thing starts to happen with debuts, players get ahead earlier and start playing earlier and earlier. This morning Cavan Sullivan At just 14 years and 293 days old, he became one of the youngest footballers in history to play a professional match. An impressive mark were it not for the fact that there were four smaller players ahead of him.

Cavan Sullivan

14 years and 293 days

The player of Philadelphia Union He came on in the 85th minute of his team’s 5-1 victory over the New England Revolution to become the youngest player in the history of MLS debut in a match.

4

Axel Kei

13 years and 279 days

Axel Kei In 2021, he became the youngest American professional athlete to debut in a team discipline. He did it in Royal Monarchs in USL (Second division of the United States).

3

Radamel Falcao

13 years and 112 days

In 1999 the ‘Tigre’ Falcao He became the youngest debutant in history. He did this when he was just 13 years old in Boyaca Lancersla la club First Colombian B. The rest became history.

2

Mauricio Baldivieso

12 years and 362 days

The Bolivian debuted in 2009 with dawn of his country. It was a bit of a trick, because his father Julio César Baldivieso He was the coach of the team in First Division of Bolivia. After that, the board forbade the coach to bring his son back, so they both left the club.

1

Eric Marshall

10 years

Football experienced a historic milestone in March 2021 with the debut of Eric Marshall with the humble FC Ga’rou of Liberian Fourth Division. Surrounded by players twice his age, the young footballer was compared to a national legend George Weah.