The Miracle of Mustafa Cisse: From Italy’s 8th division, protagonist in Atalanta matches

Gian Piero Gasperini had exhausted all ideas in Sunday’s game between Atalanta in the “Renato Dal’Ara” against Bologna for the 30th game of Serie A to finally make the decision to trust a young lad to strengthen the attacking line.

That was Mustafa Cisse. The youngster came on in place of Muriel in the 65th minute and needed just 17 minutes to justify his coach scoring Bergamaski’s winner in the 82nd minute and making history.

Not only that, at the age of 18 years and 187 days he became the second youngest player to hit the net on his Serie A debut wearing the Atalanta shirt (the record is held by Amand Diallo, who hit at the age of 17 would have). and 108 days), but also because it has an incredible background.

Just last month he joined Dea’s youth team and the impressive thing is that until recently he played for SD Rinascita Refugees, a club made up of foreign players seeking asylum in Italy and participating in the 8th Italian league .

It is noted that after the game ended, Cisse’s teammates lifted him on their shoulders to celebrate the big win, with Turkey international defender Meric Demiral enthusiastically declaring:

“The win was important, I’m very happy for Atalanta and Cisse because he’s already managed to adapt well to training. He deserves that goal and he’ll do even better in the next game.”