Yankuba Minteh

I'll be honest — before Yankuba Minteh started lighting up Premier League pitches, I had to look twice at the map to find The Gambia, a tiny sliver of a country on West Africa's Atlantic coast. But this kid from Bakau is the real deal: a right winger with serious pace and directness who broke through at Brighton & Hove Albion at a ridiculously young age. Born in 2004, he's barely old enough to rent a car and yet he's already representing his national team and holding his own in one of the world's toughest leagues. There's something genuinely exciting about watching a player barely into his twenties who plays without fear — he just runs at defenders like the scoreboard doesn't exist. The ceiling here feels very, very high.

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Name (English)

Yankuba Minteh

Name (Japanese)

ヤンクバ・ミンテ

Reading

やんくば・みんて

Born

July 22, 2004 (age 22)

Origin

Bakau, The Gambia

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankuba%20Minteh
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%90%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115399505

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.