Dan Ndoye (20) scored the 1-0 winning goal against England with his curious arc lamp and thus gave our U21s the perfect start to the European Championship. It was a magical moment when he saw the ball lay in the net, he says with a smile, “that was definitely happy.”
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Ironically, Ndoye becomes the match winner. In Switzerland it is only known to the biggest football fans: the fast and dribbling wing has never played a single Super League game. After advancing with Lausanne last season, Ndoye moves to Nice. From the Challenge League straight to Ligue 1. The leap is huge, but it immediately comes to his minutes on a regular basis.
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Anyone who is on the pitch against Paris Saint-Germain with the megastars Neymar, Mbappé & Co. does not see the English U21s around Hudson-Odoi as an unbeatable opponent. «This victory was not an exploit. Switzerland is also a big football nation, ”says Ndoye confidently.
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At the age of five, the son of a Swiss woman and a Senegalese woman started playing football at La Côte Sport. He switched to the Vaud team via Saint-Prex. From the U15 level he played for Lausanne. Football dominates his life. In his private life, he prefers to play on his Playstation, listens to French rap and raves about Neymar and basketball star Stephen Curry. His favorite film? Harry Potter.
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He was still a sorcerer’s apprentice himself when Lausanne coach Giorgio Contini threw him into the deep end of the Challenge League in February 2019 at the age of 18. But Contini does not see himself as an explorer. “Anyone else would have brought Dan too. You just have to let your own player with this potential play. “
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Of course, Contini would have preferred it last summer if Ndoye had added another season at Lausanne. “Playing 20 to 25 Super League games over 90 minutes would certainly have done him good too. But he made a different decision. And it seems as if he would also bite through Nice. “
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He’s not afraid that the jewel might take off. “Dan is a calm, determined young man. He also has a great family, ”says Contini. Dan even accompanied some of them to France. He lives in Nice with his mother and sister Eva, who is an athlete. This is one of the reasons why he settled in so quickly and so well on the Côte d’Azur, said Ndoye recently in BLICK.
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In the summer of 2020, the winning goal scorer was introduced by “SonntagsBlick” as one of seven national team players of the future. The wing racer has a market value of 950,000 francs. This is now around 5 million. If “magic apprentice” Ndoye continues to trump the European Championship, he will quickly become even more valuable. We wouldn’t mind.
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