Barcelona sign Senegal's World Cup star Wague

Barcelona have reached an agreement to sign former Aspire Football Dreams-player and Senegal intternational Moussa Wague, according to the official site of the Spanish club.

The clubs and the 19-year-old right-back have agreed today and the corresponding formalities will be settled in the coming days.

However, the fee hasn’t been revealed and he is yet to sign the contract, but that will be done in the next few days. He has completed his medical, on Friday morning and will train with his team for the first time at Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper on Saturday.

The announcement came through the Barcelona B Twitter account, so he will be part of that team at the start, but he could graduate into the senior squad.

Wague is relatively inexperienced at the senior level because he only played 23 league and cup matches for Eupen as well as 17 Europa League qualifying games. Although, he did impress with Senegal at the World Cup.

 Before moving to Belgium club, Wague was trained at the Aspire Academy Senegal.

 Wague made his international breakthrough at the 2018 World Cup with the Senegalese national team. At the World Cup tournament, he played two matches in his country’s starting team and played in the third group match for 15 minutes. With his goal against Japan, Moussa Wague became Africa’s youngest scorer of all time, at just 19 years, 8 months and 20 days old.

KAS Eupen is a Belgian professional football club that currently plays in the ‘Jupiler Pro League’ (1st Division) and serves an important role in the philosophy of Qatar’s Aspire Academy: The club, in which the football related activities of the club were taken over by AZF in 2012 while still playing in the 2nd Division, functions as a stepping stone for Aspire's local Qatari players as well as 'Aspire Football Dreams' scholarship players to guarantee a smooth and successful transition from youth to professional football.

When Aspire Zone Foundation became the new owner of KAS Eupen in June 2012, the initial response from the city on the German-Belgian border, population 18,000, was reserved. But the foreign investor from distant Qatar was soon recognized as a highly professional partner – one who laid solid foundations for future success, modernised the structure and organisation of the club, quickly earned trust by honouring current contracts and bolstered the team by recruiting a raft of new players who had previously been part of the football programme of Aspire Academy in Doha or 'Aspire Football Dreams' in Senegal.