Bayern Munich has recently signed the latest youth product and future big thing from Australia. At just 17 years old, Nestory Irakunda would in 2024 leave his home country to compete at the highest level for the historical biggest German club ever.
Born 09/02/2006 in Kigoma (Tanzania), Irakunda is an Australian nationalized attacker who actually plays for Adelaide United in the A-League Men. After playing in his academy days for Adelaide Croatia Raiders Academy, he was in 2021 transferred to Adelaida United, where he took his first steps in professional football at a really young age, leaving high quality performances and having great impact in his team dynamic, what have make him earn a transfer to a top club such as Bayern.
Irakunda can play in any attacking position. While he mainly starts and feels more comfortable playing as winger, he can also perform as center forward or second striker. When playing next to the sideline, he possesses a varied skill set that allows him to play on both sides, being much more determinant and having better output while playing on the right side. Irakunda stands out for his verticality, ability to surpass rivals, unpredictability and flashing pace.
Nestory Irakunda is the classical attacker profile able to change and decide matches with his individual attacking situations, making a huge difference in one-on-one situations. Irakunda tends to be vertical on his game, loving to catch the ball and carry it forward, being the player with most progressive carries in Australian Senior League. In that sense he becomes really dangerous as he possesses great facility to get or enter the penalty area in possession of the ball. He shows that vertical tendency in his off the ball movements too, loving to attack space to the back of the defense and make diagonal runs to get goal scoring chances.
That verticality is provided by his huge pace in both long and short distances, which helps him also to be decisive in dribbling. Irakunda becomes incredibly determinant while playing into open space, being almost impossible to defend against. His pace when having meters in front is blinding, and has great stride and change of pass, those physical attributes making him a threatening player to play in transition and surpass rivals. But that does not exclude him from playing in tight spaces. Feeling under pressure, he possesses good ball dominance and fast footwork, which added to his explosiveness in short meters and low center of gravity to fastly change directions provide him alternatives to dribble in short-range actions. He possesses quite quick thinking and fantasy to try eccentric dribbles, having a great source of tricks in his skillset.
A remarkable and incredible aspect of his game is his ball striking ability. Irakunda has the goal between his eyebrows when arriving at advanced areas, and does not hesitate to try for a shot. Being right footed, he is capable of hitting the ball on both feet, and shows immense power on his shooting for his young age, being a threat even on long range shooting. When playing on the left side he explodes that attribute of his game, cutting inside to his right foot in search of a good position to try to go for a goal. Apart from being able to adopt inner positions to try for a shot, he is versatile in his dribbling, being also capable of going wide looking for the bottom line, where once again his ball striking ability makes the difference. He has great capacity to provide crosses to his teammates, as well as vision and clarity to filter pin-point passes to teammates in search of goal scoring chances in the penalty area.
Being such a young player, Irakunda has room for improvement in several areas. His physicality is quite good, with good levels of strength, but lacks aerial game. His concentration and temperament is also an aspect to control towards the future, as he may sometimes react badly to unfavorable events or rival´s tackles. Other aspects to improve are tactical issues as individualism (as he may sometimes sin of excessive ball conduction or dribbles) or further technical development, as he sometimes misses easy ball controls or carries but solves the issue and compensates with his physical attributes.
Nestory Irakunda is one of the biggest talents of the moment, having a great attacker profile for his young age and a bright future towards him. Bayern München has ensured his present and future by signing a player who is said to be one of the top players of the next generation of football players.
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Born 09/02/2006 in Kigoma (Tanzania), Irakunda is an Australian nationalized attacker who actually plays for Adelaide United in the A-League Men. After playing in his academy days for Adelaide Croatia Raiders Academy, he was in 2021 transferred to Adelaida United, where he took his first steps in professional football at a really young age, leaving high quality performances and having great impact in his team dynamic, what have make him earn a transfer to a top club such as Bayern.
Irakunda can play in any attacking position. While he mainly starts and feels more comfortable playing as winger, he can also perform as center forward or second striker. When playing next to the sideline, he possesses a varied skill set that allows him to play on both sides, being much more determinant and having better output while playing on the right side. Irakunda stands out for his verticality, ability to surpass rivals, unpredictability and flashing pace.
Nestory Irakunda is the classical attacker profile able to change and decide matches with his individual attacking situations, making a huge difference in one-on-one situations. Irakunda tends to be vertical on his game, loving to catch the ball and carry it forward, being the player with most progressive carries in Australian Senior League. In that sense he becomes really dangerous as he possesses great facility to get or enter the penalty area in possession of the ball. He shows that vertical tendency in his off the ball movements too, loving to attack space to the back of the defense and make diagonal runs to get goal scoring chances.
That verticality is provided by his huge pace in both long and short distances, which helps him also to be decisive in dribbling. Irakunda becomes incredibly determinant while playing into open space, being almost impossible to defend against. His pace when having meters in front is blinding, and has great stride and change of pass, those physical attributes making him a threatening player to play in transition and surpass rivals. But that does not exclude him from playing in tight spaces. Feeling under pressure, he possesses good ball dominance and fast footwork, which added to his explosiveness in short meters and low center of gravity to fastly change directions provide him alternatives to dribble in short-range actions. He possesses quite quick thinking and fantasy to try eccentric dribbles, having a great source of tricks in his skillset.
A remarkable and incredible aspect of his game is his ball striking ability. Irakunda has the goal between his eyebrows when arriving at advanced areas, and does not hesitate to try for a shot. Being right footed, he is capable of hitting the ball on both feet, and shows immense power on his shooting for his young age, being a threat even on long range shooting. When playing on the left side he explodes that attribute of his game, cutting inside to his right foot in search of a good position to try to go for a goal. Apart from being able to adopt inner positions to try for a shot, he is versatile in his dribbling, being also capable of going wide looking for the bottom line, where once again his ball striking ability makes the difference. He has great capacity to provide crosses to his teammates, as well as vision and clarity to filter pin-point passes to teammates in search of goal scoring chances in the penalty area.
Being such a young player, Irakunda has room for improvement in several areas. His physicality is quite good, with good levels of strength, but lacks aerial game. His concentration and temperament is also an aspect to control towards the future, as he may sometimes react badly to unfavorable events or rival´s tackles. Other aspects to improve are tactical issues as individualism (as he may sometimes sin of excessive ball conduction or dribbles) or further technical development, as he sometimes misses easy ball controls or carries but solves the issue and compensates with his physical attributes.
Nestory Irakunda is one of the biggest talents of the moment, having a great attacker profile for his young age and a bright future towards him. Bayern München has ensured his present and future by signing a player who is said to be one of the top players of the next generation of football players.
Click here to see full scouting report