With the French striker coming out of injury, the teenage midfielder will start against the Bavarians.
In March 2023 he will be 17 years old, for now he is only 16. Warren Zaire-Emery makes his debut in the round of 16 of the Champions League and starts in the first leg between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich, a litmus test for him and for everyone in the football world.
who is warren Zaire-Emery, the 16-year-old footballer who replaces Mbappé at PSG – Bayern Munich in the Champions League
Just over an hour before the start of the match between PSG and Bayern at the Parc des Princes, for the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, UEFA confirmed the lineups of the two teams and made it official that Zaire-Emery would start for the first time in league history (He has already played 11 minutes but never as a starting player). Great scenario to do it in maximum continental league. However, it should be remembered that Zaire– Emery plays because Mbappé, who is recovering from an injury, has not been included in Galtier’s squad.
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Zaire-Emery was recruited by PSG when the boy was only 8 years old. Since then it has become one of the jewels of the youth team of the Ligue 1 champions.
He was born on March 8, 2006 in Montreuil, France. He is 1.78 meters tall and plays as a pivot, although Galtier often uses him as a right midfielder or looser midfielder.
Since the 2022-2023 season, he has started making minutes with the PSG first team and set several records: at the age of 16, he became the youngest player to see Champions League action with PSG, and was also the small starting age of the history of the French club.
He made his professional debut in the PSG first team on August 6, 2022 in Ligue 1; He was the youngest to make his French league debut at 16 years, four months and 29 days. He came on as a substitute for Marco Verratti in the 82nd minute in a 5–0 win over Clermont Foot 63. In early February, he became the youngest player in PSG history to score a goal (in a 3–1 win against Montpellier).
At 16 years and 343 days, Warren Zaire-Emery becomes the youngest player in Champions League history to start a match in the knockout stages of the tournament against Bayern (February 14, 2023).
Zaire-Emery is also a fixture for the French youth teams. Playing as a midfielder, he stands out not only for his reading ability and skill with the ball, but also for his technique and vision to play, showing great precision and creativity to generate play for his teammates and also reach the opposite area . They are not a few who have compared him to Jude Bellingham, from Borussia Dortmund.
Source: Goal