There’s excellent news to report from RB Leipzig training camp in Faro, Portugal. German phenom Assan Ouédraogo is back in full team training and may be poised to return to the Bundesliga pitch onc...
There’s excellent news to report from RB Leipzig training camp in Faro, Portugal. German phenom Assan Ouédraogo is back in full team training and may be poised to return to the Bundesliga pitch once league play resumes next weekend. Kicker Magazine Leipzig correspondent Oliver Hartmann reported on the 19-year-old’s status whilst embedded with the team in the Portuguese Algarve.
In a report filed from Leipzig’s mini-camp, Hartmann quotes RB head coach Ole Werner as noting that Ouédraogo “looks very good”. The teenage talent has clearly put in a lot of hard work to make an early comeback from a rough tendon injury in his knee suffered in late November. After a series of heartbreaking injury setbacks, Ouédraogo is clearly no longer in a mood to let such issues further delay his rise.
Ouédraogo was in blazing form before the injury
Prior to incurring the injury, Ouédraogo scored just two minutes into his German senior men’s national team debut. A few days later in the Bundesliga, Ouédraogo fired home a serious candidate for the “goal of the season” against Werder Bremen in the league. Everything seemed to be going right for the Mülheim native after an injury-riddled campaign last year.
The son of former German football veteran Alassane Ouédraogo is widely celebrated in German footballing circles as a once-in-a-generation box-to-box midfield talent; perhaps Germany’s answer to Jude Bellingham. After impressing for the German Red Bulls, the Germany U21s, and Julian Nagelsmann’s Nationalmannschaft this autumn, Ouédraogo is surely very eager to get back in action.
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