🧐 Nearly 100 appearances, this star has never gone the distance
🧐 Nearly 100 appearances, this star has never gone the distance Dortmund’s Carney Chukwuemeka celebrated a dream debut for the Austrian national team yesterday. He came on in the second half and promptly scored his first goal. At BVB, too, everyone surely agrees that the 22-year-old is an outstanding footballer.
What sets him apart from many other players, however, is this: he is probably more familiar than almost anyone else with the procedure surrounding substitutions and being taken off. Although he made his professional debut for Premier League club Aston Villa five years ago and has since made 97 competitive appearances, he has never once played a full match. He has come on as a substitute 79 times, and started 18 times — but was taken off every single time.
He came closest to completing a full match on two occasions: both times, the dream of 90 minutes ended in the 82nd minute, and he had to make way once again. Chukwuemeka has been playing for Borussia Dortmund since 2024 and has made 49 appearances there — but still without a single full match over the entire distance. At least there’s still a little time before he reaches the 100-game mark.
Maybe by then, he’ll finally get a full 90 minutes. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.