Another 3 goals: BVB talent keeps scoring streak going | OneFootball

At just 16 years old, a Borussia Dortmund striker is currently scoring almost at will – and now he is doing so in his national team shirt as well.

Bjarki Gardarsson just keeps scoring for fun. The Icelander is currently away on international duty with his country’s U17 side and is continuing his impressive goal streak there as well. After making his first start last Saturday, 26 September, in a 3-1 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina and scoring a brace that day, he found the net again on Tuesday, 29 September, in a narrow 3-2 victory over Greece. That means the young striker already has three goals from his last two international matches.

Across all competitions, his record looks even more impressive. Bjarki Gardarsson marked his debut in the DFB Junior Cup for BVB against Holstein Kiel’s youth team with a hat-trick. He then added five more goals in five league matches. That makes it eleven goals in eight games this season – an outstanding rate for a new signing who only joined BVB’s U19 team last summer from Icelandic club UMF Stjarnan Garðabær.

BVB talent Bjarki Gardarsson on the verge of his professional debut?

At the youth academy, they already had very high hopes for the centre-forward when he was signed. Thomas Broich, Sporting Director of the academy, said at the time after the transfer on the BVB website: “Bjarki is a striker who is physically strong and direct, and who also has a good instinct for the penalty area.” Even at that point, Bjarki Gardarsson had already established himself in Iceland’s youth national teams and, before his move to BVB, had made eight appearances and scored two goals for Iceland’s U17 side.

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If the Icelander’s development continues at this pace, coach Niko Kovač may soon have little choice but to give him a chance at senior level. Last season, the Croatian already handed Luca Reggiani, Samuele Inacio and Mathis Albert their first professional appearances. If Bjarki Gardarsson keeps scoring at this rate, a Bundesliga debut by the end of the season no longer seems out of the question. By next season at the latest, the time should come – if only to prevent other clubs from snapping up this exceptional talent.

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