Youssoufa Moukoko's parents set to be evicted from his house
After cutting family ties, Youssoufa Moukoko has left his parents facing eviction from their home and a move into a refugee shelter.
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On 18 December 2020, Youssoufa Moukoko became the youngest scorer in Bundesliga history, aged 16 years and 28 days, against Union Berlin. Now established in the Dortmund squad, the German striker of Cameroonian descent, born in Yaoundé, is going through a rift with his parents. It is an untenable situation that has sparked debate in Germany. German outlet Bild broke the story exclusively, reporting that Youssoufa Moukoko's parents are to leave their fine villa and move into a shelter. The German authorities offered them that solution.
How did they end up here? The young Dortmund striker paid for his parents to have a 351m2 house on a 1296m2 plot in Hamburg, valued at an estimated 1.2 million euros, which the player paid off monthly rather than buying it outright. The situation turned sour when Youssoufa Moukoko came of age. Tensions arose mainly between son and father. The BVB player decided to cut family ties with his parents, Joseph (72) and Marie (35). On turning 18 and gaining the legal capacity to manage his own contracts, he chose to turn off the money tap. As a result, the 18-year-old's parents have been left squeezed and buried under a mountain of debt.
Parents crushed by debt
With the parents owing creditors 514,981 euros, the house was seized and put up for auction. After two attempts without a buyer, a family from Kosovo eventually took the house for 570,000 euros. That was just enough to repay the Moukoko parents' creditors. According to Bild, Youssoufa Moukoko's parents have been asked to leave the house by the end of July 2023. To help them, the community has organised for them to live in a shelter in the south of Hamburg.
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Faced with this precarious situation, Bild managed to speak to the father, Joseph, who said only: "Our son no longer supports us. But do you think I would speak badly of him?" Then he left. The Dortmund striker's adviser, Patrick Williams, would only say: "We are saying nothing about this. It's private." Since the German outlet's revelations, the affair has been talked about as far away as Cameroon.