Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 2:42 PM• Dominic Mostert • Last update: 14:44

Jayden Braaf became the youngest Dutch goal scorer of all time in Serie A on Sunday afternoon. first goal at the highest level. Braaf is 18 years and 237 days old.

The talent already played three games for Udinese before Sunday, including two as a substitute. On Sunday he came on the line twenty minutes before time, when Udinese took the lead 1-3. With his first touches of the ball, the former youth player of Ajax and PSV made it 1-4. Well-behaved was served in the penalty area by Roberto Pereyra, passed Kamil Glik with a deft foot movement and rounded off with the left leg in the short corner.

In Serie A there is currently not a single player who is younger than Braaf and who already managed to score. He is also the youngest ever Dutch goal scorer in Serie A. Braaf takes over the record from Clarence Seedorf, who scored for Sampdoria when he was 19 years and 323 days old. Udinese takes eleventh place in Serie A after the victory. Benevento is seventeenth and has three points away from the ‘red line’: the numbers eighteen to twenty are relegated directly to Serie B.