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My Take
Greenwood's raw talent has never been in question for me. Becoming Manchester United's youngest ever goalscorer in European competition at seventeen tells you everything about his ceiling. What I watch for now is the player he becomes at Marseille, where he has rebuilt his career as a forward in Ligue 1. Strikers with his two-footed finishing and quick release are genuinely rare, and at his age the prime years are still ahead. Whether he fulfills that enormous early promise is one of football's more compelling open questions, and I find myself unable to look away from how the answer unfolds.
Overview
Mason Will John Greenwood (born 1 October 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Marseille. A graduate of Manchester United's youth system, Greenwood scored in a UEFA Europa League match against Astana in September 2019, to become the club's youngest ever goalscorer in European competition at the age of 17 years, 353 days.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mason Greenwood
- Name (Japanese)
- メイソン・グリーンウッド
- Reading
- めいそん・ぐりーんうっど
- Born
- October 1, 2001 (age 24)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Snake
- Origin
- Bradford, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 181 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.