Egy Maulana

Egy Maulana Vikri (born 7 July 2000) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays for Slovak Super Liga club FK Senica and the Indonesia national team. In 2017, Egy was named as one of the 60 most talented and promising players born in the year 2000 by The Guardian.

Club Career

Early career

Egy comes from a family of footballers. His father coached at SSB Tasbi, a soccer school in Medan where Egy began to play, while his older brother Yusrizal Muzakki has played for lower league teams in Indonesia. At SSB Tasbi, Egy participated in the Grassroots Indonesian U-12 Tournament in 2012. His raw talent was noticed by the Indonesian national talent scouts. At that time, Egy helped his team to become the champions of that tournament and also ended up as the top scorer. After primary school, he went to the Special Sports School, a government secondary school for talented athletes in the Ragunan area of South Jakarta or better known as SKO Ragunan. In 2016, Egy was part of an Indonesian youth team that became the champion in the Gothia Cup event in Sweden. He won the best player award of the 2016 Gothia Cup tournament after bagging a total of 28 goals along the way.

His talent increasingly attracted international media attention when he played for the Indonesia U-19 team that represented Asia in the renowned Festival International Espoirs - Tournoi Maurice Revello or better known as the Toulon Tournament for youth teams from 29 May to 10 June 2017. While his team lost all of its group matches, Egy won the prestigious Jouer Revelation Trophee for being the breakout player in the tournament, an award previously won by footballers who later became world stars, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane.

He continued to shine in September 2017. Egy became the top scorer of the 2017 AFF U-19 Youth Championship with eight goals for the Indonesia U-19 team.

By the end of 2017, there was a race to be the first professional team to sign Egy, who received in

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