Factfile: Getting to know Josh Sargent

21-year-old forward Josh Sargent signed for Norwich City from Werder Bremen on Monday.

21-year-old forward Josh Sargent signed for Norwich City from Werder Bremen on Monday.

The United States international has made a total of 83 appearances for Bremen’s first team in all competitions, scoring 11 goals and getting nine assists.

Against Fortuna Dusseldorf, he scored with his first touch on his senior debut for Bremen to record the fastest goal by a debutant in the club’s history.

Before playing in the Bundesliga, he scored seven goals in 12 games for Werder Bremen II, the club’s reserve side.

On the international stage, Sargent became the youngest player to score for the US at the FIFA U20 World Cup at the age of 17 in May 2017.

That year, he became the first US player to feature at the U17 and U20 World Cups and be called up to the senior team all in the same calendar year.

Sargent wore the captain’s armband for the U17s and scored 30 goals in 48 games, before scoring four in six for the U20s and five in 16 for the senior team.

He scored five goals in the 2017 CONCACAF U17 Championship as the US reached the final of the competition, and he won the CONCACAF Nations League with the US in 2019/20.

Sargent also won the silver boot in the FIFA U20 World Cup, only Dominic Solanke scoring more goals than him at that tournament.