Mexico's U-16 National Team has called up Atakan David Yılmaz Zepeta, a 16-year-old forward who plays for FC St. Pauli's youth team in Germany. The player's name had been on the radar of the Mexican Football Federation since 2025, and he has now been given his first opportunity to work with the Mexican team. The capture of dual-nationality players in European leagues has become a key strategy for detecting talented players and providing them with close monitoring in the facilities of the Tri. Under this scenario, the Mexican U-16 National Team has called up Atakan David Yılmaz Zepeta, a 16-year-old forward who plays for FC St. Pauli's youth team in Germany and was called up for the first time to work with the Mexican team. The forward was born on January 10, 2010, in Xalapa, Veracruz, and has Mexican roots through his mother and Turkish ancestry through his father. His sports career has developed mainly in German territory, where he defends the jersey of FC St. Pauli in the Under-17 category and has a contract that binds him to the institution until June 30, 2028. The case of the Veracruz forward has an international precedent, as the Turkish Federation was the first to call him up at the level of selections. In February 2025, the young player played a series of friendly matches with the Turkish U-15 National Team, starting as a starter and wearing the number 10 jersey in a match against England, where he played the first 46 minutes of the game. However, since it was a matter of appearances in younger categories, that call-up did not tie him definitively to the European team. With this first call-up to the Mexican U-16 team, the Tri will directly evaluate the gem of St. Pauli, although by maintaining both nationalities, the 16-year-old player will continue to be eligible for both Mexico and Turkey in the future. The Mexican U-16 National Team is currently in first place in the FIFA World Cup 2026 classification, with 9 points, 3 wins and 0 losses in 3 games, and a recent streak of 4 wins and 1 loss in the last 5 games.