Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at 8:08 PM• Last update: 20:15

Bagus Kahfi starts knocking on the door of FC Utrecht. At the end of August, five months after his arrival, the nineteen-year-old striker from Indonesia made his official debut for Jong FC Utrecht. He came on three minutes before the end in the 3-0 win over Telstar. In the friendly match against La Louvière Center (5-2 win), he then scored his first two unofficial goals in Utrecht service. Kahfi is the reason that the live streams of Jong FC Utrecht attract more viewers than those of the first.

Kahfi is known in his homeland as a top talent and, for example, has 560,000 followers on Instagram. That is more than four times more than FC Utrecht itself. Although the attacker is very interesting from a commercial point of view, the sporting part comes first for technical director Jordy Zuidam. There were quite a few snags about his arrival, but in the end the club managed it. “To the relief of Bagus in particular. He has a clear dream and that is actually the dream of all football fans in his country: to succeed as an Indonesian in Europe,” he told the newspaper. General Newspaper.

“Bagus is a special case, in a positive sense. He also seeks a lot of social contact himself, he is not the type that sits at home. That suits his character, he wants to make it so badly. He has an incredible drive, that is really not normal,” emphasizes the sports director of FC Utrecht. “Bagus knows what he wants and will do anything to get it. I have a lot of respect and admiration for that. It is fantastic to see that he feels so comfortable and accepted here and that he is now also fit enough to make minutes.”

Zuidam cannot yet say how good Kahfi actually is, now that he has made his first minutes in the Kitchen Champion Division. “The coming period should show how he develops and whether he can really join that team. Then the first team is a possible next step. This is another book and we are now in chapter one. In any case, he is on his way.” Kahfi still has a contract with FC Utrecht until the end of this season. The club does have an option to extend the contract for another two years.