Ba a tsammaci Deniz Undav zai zama daya daga cikin manyan jaruman FIFA World Cup 2026. Ɗan wasan Stuttgart ba ya wakiltar ƙasarsa a matakin matasa, kuma bai samu kiran farko zuwa tawagar babba ba sai a watan Maris 2024 yana da shekaru 27, kafin ya zura kansa ta farko a wasan kasa da kasa bayan watanni shida. Duk da haka, ga shi a nan — mafi yanke hukunci a matsayin dan wasa mai kai hari a tawagar Jamus a gasar.

Lokacinsa na yanke hukunci ya zo daga benci, inda kwallaye biyu da ya zura suka taimaka wa tawagar Julian Nagelsmann ta juya sakamakon wasan da Ivory Coast kuma ta jagoranci Rukunin E kafin wasan karshe. Jamus za ta fafata da Ecuador a wasan karshe na rukunin a Gillette Stadium kafin zagaye na 32 da wata tawaga ta uku.

Kididdiga da ta cancanci kulawa

Tasirin sa ya kasance ba za a iya watsi da shi ba. Undav ya kuma zura kwallon bakwai ta Jamus a kan Curacao a wasan farko na Rukunin E, wanda hakan ya kai jimlar kwallayensa zuwa uku a wasanni biyu na Kofin Duniya. Sai dai Lionel Messi — wanda ya fi kowa zura kwallaye a tarihin gasar — ya fi shi kwallaye a wannan matakin farko na gasar.

Kididdigan rikodinsa na kasa da kasa ma suna da burgewa. A wasanni 11 na kasa da kasa — takwas daga cikinsu a matsayin wanda aka musanya — Undav ya zura kwallaye tara a cikin mintuna 427 kawai, wato kusan kwallon daya a cikin mintuna 45, wani zangon da ya sanya shi daya daga cikin 'yan wasan da aka musanya mafi inganci.

Kwallaye shida a cikin wasanni biyar na kasa da kasa na karshe suna nuna yadda Nagelsmann ke iya dogara da shi don canza wasan daga benci.

Aiki da aka gina a matakai

Undav, wanda zai cika shekaru 30 a ranar 19 ga Yuli — wannan ranar ita ce ranar wasan karshe na Kofin Duniya a MetLife Stadium a East Rutherford, New Jersey — ya bi hanya ta daban don isa wannan matakin. Ya shiga Union Saint-Gilloise a shekarar 2020 a matsayin wani ɓangare na kulab ɗin Tony Bloom, kuma ya zura kwallaye da yawa a Belgium a tsawon kakar biyu.

Bayan haka, an canza shi zuwa Brighton & Hove Albion, inda ya ba da gudummawar kwallaye biyar a wasanni 22 na Premier League a shekarar 2022-23. Stuttgart ta dauke shi a aro, kuma haɗin gwiwar ya canza komai. Undav ya sanya hannu na dindindin tare da ƙungiyar Bundesliga a watan Agusta 2024 kuma bai daina zura kwallaye tun lokacin ba.

Hat-trick da ya yi a kan Borussia Dortmund a watan Nuwamba da ya wuce ya nuna matakin da ya kai a kwallon ƙafa ta saman Jamus, kuma Augsburg sun ji kaifin fasaharsa sau biyu a kakar da ta wuce, inda suka ci kwallaye biyu a wasanni daban-daban.

Daidaiton kai hari na Jamus

Nagelsmann ba shi da ɗan wasa na gaba mai ƙarfi sosai a hanyar gargajiya, amma haɗuwar Kai Havertz — ɗan wasan mai kamala wanda ke cika babban rawar — da Undav a matsayin zaɓi mai iya canza wasan daga benci yana ba Jamus tsarin kai hari mai sassauci da ƙarfi. Wannan daidaito na iya ɗaukar su zuwa matakai mafi zurfi a gasar.

Wasan karshe na Kofin Duniya ya faɗo ranar haihuwar Undav ta 30. Ko Jamus za su kasance can don fafatawa a ciki na iya dogara da yawa, ga mutumin daga Lower Saxony wanda zai ci gaba da yin abin da ya fi iya yi.