Désiré Doué

CTL-E-5888 · Person · other · 2005–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07136 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5888.

Désiré Doué, born on 3 June 2005 in Angers, France, is a French winger of Ivorian descent who plays for Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. He joined Rennes as a child and made his senior debut in August 2022, becoming the first player born in 2005 to score in one of Europe's top five leagues. Paris Saint-Germain signed him in August 2024 on a five-year contract. He made his senior France debut in March 2025, and on 31 May 2025 he produced the defining performance of the Champions League final in Munich: two goals and an assist in PSG's 5–0 win over Inter Milan, the club's first European Cup, earning player of the match as the first teenager to score twice in a Champions League final. He was named the UEFA Champions League Young Player of the Season and won the 2025 Golden Boy award.

The record

• Also known as: Desire Doue

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Désiré Doué entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5888 free. Provenance: Built in Census Intake Wave 2 and held because intake order closed that window at rank 1000; staged here in ledger order; re-verified against the live graph at 3,603 entities (Gate A re-run 2026-10-16: still absent). Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1003 (Soccer Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Ivorian-descent diaspora figure (French international of Ivorian descent, per BBC Newsround) — diaspora scope. Vital status: LIVING — in Paris Saint-Germain's October 2026 Champions League matchday squads (fixtures current to 14 October 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Champions League final, 31 May 2025: two goals and one assist, player of the match, at 19 years 362 days (Wikipedia/UEFA tradition); three goal involvements in the final, the first player with three since 1964 (Wikipedia) — accessed 2026-10-16. RE-VERIFICATION (Wave 3, 2026-10-16): still a Paris Saint-Germain starter — named in PSG's starting line-up for the Champions League match at Manchester City on 14 October 2026 and scored the opening goal (Sportradar match record; TNT Sports / City Xtra match reports, 15 October 2026). No headline fact in the held record has moved; no correction required. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and PSG/press photography of Désiré Doué (incl. the 2025 Champions League final) exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5888-desire-doue.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normalized forms — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants, incl. accent-normal) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• IANS report of the PSG signing release (17 August 2024), via Pune News — born in Angers in 2005; Rennes academy from 2011; first professional contract April 2022; Ligue 1 debut 7 August 2022 vs Lorient; joined Paris Saint-Germain on a five-year contract — https://pune.news/sports/football-psg-sign-french-midfielder-desire-doue-from-rennes-on-a-five-year-contract-214491/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Désiré Doué" — on 31 May 2025 scored twice and assisted in the 5–0 Champions League final win over Inter Milan, player of the match, PSG's first title in the competition; first teenager to score a brace in a final (19 years, 362 days); UEFA Champions League Young Player of the Season — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Dou%C3%A9 (build store)
• BBC Newsround, "Who is PSG superstar Desire Doue?" — of French-Ivorian descent; signed for PSG in August 2024; full France debut in the March 2025 Nations League win against Croatia; youngest player to score two goals in a European Cup / Champions League final — https://bbcinsight.pages.dev/newsround/articles/cj6rdz36n5eo (build store)
• French Football Weekly (4 November 2025) — named Golden Boy 2025 (Tuttosport award for Europe's best under-21 player) after the 2024–25 season in which he won everything with PSG, scoring two goals in the Champions League final — https://frenchfootballweekly.com/2025/11/04/desire-doue-its-official/ (build store)

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