Sole scorer for Atalanta on Sunday in Bologna, Moustapha Cissé has come a long way. Its dazzling trajectory makes you dizzy.
This is the fairy tale that regales all of Italy this Monday. Moustapha Cissé (18), for his first appearance in Serie A, scored his first goal and gave victory to Atalanta on the lawn of Bologna (0-1, 30th day), this Sunday. And if the whole boot is under the spell, it’s because this young Guinean comes out of almost nowhere.
Arrived from Conakry at the age of 16 after losing his father, the young man started in the Lecce region, in Seconda Categoria, within the UD Rinascita Refugees, a club founded by the Senegalese Niang Baye Hassane, which offers applicants for asylum a chance to indulge their passion for football. He was still there two months ago. This is where Bergamasque recruiters spotted him.
Lightning Ascent
Since then, his trajectory has been meteoric. Arrived in February, he joined the Primavera. And after 3 goals in 3 matches, the young man convinced Gian Piero Gasperini, deprived of many players in attack, to bet on him. On the bench against Genoa (0-0, 29th day), he came into play instead of Luis Muriel this Sunday, jersey n ° 99 on the back. With the happiness that we know, by becoming the second youngest scorer in the history of the Dea in the league.
“He’s been training with us for some time, but if we had all our strikers available, he probably wouldn’t have come to Bologna with us. It’s proof that there is always good in store and that you just have to have the courage to go get it. The choice of Cissé is a stroke of genius from Gasperini, especially since the boy has qualities, such as his shot on the ball., responded Tullio Gritti, Gasperini’s assistant, after the game. It now remains to be seen how long Moustapha Cissé’s dream will last.
