Moinul Islam Moin was born on 18 February 2005 in Muladi, Barisal. The eldest among two brothers and three sisters, Moin completed HSC from Baptist Mission Boys High School in 2022. He trained under the local coach Ziaul Ahsan Khan at the Muladi Football Academy before being selected by the Bangladesh U15 team for the 2018 SAFF U-15 Championship in Nepal.[1] In 2019, Moin represented his high school at the Clear Men Under-17 School Football Tournament and was selected among the best six players of the tournament, gaining the opportunity to train with the English club Manchester City.[2] However, this opportunity did not come to fruition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, Moin won the best player award of the Bangabandhu Under-17 Gold Cup Football Tournament, where 98,730 footballers participated from all over the country. His team, Barisal Division, was crowned champions, defeating Chittagong Division 2–1.[3]
Club career
Uttara FC
In 2021, Moin joined Uttara FC for the 2020–21 Bangladesh Championship League. He made his professional league debut on 7 February 2022 against NoFeL SC. In the following league game, held eight days later, Moin scored his first professional league goal in a 1–1 draw with Dhaka City FC.[4] His first season at the cub saw him make 17 appearances while scoring a single goal. Moin began the 2021–22 Bangladesh Championship League season with goals against Dhaka Wanderers and Agrani Bank SC in the league's first two matches. He finished the first phase with 10 goals from 11 games.[5] His best performance during the second phase came during 3–2 victory over BFF Elite Academy on 3 June 2022. During the game he scored a brace, with his first goal coming from a free-kick to open the scoring while his second goal being the winner, a curling effort resulting from a throw-in. Moin finished the season as league top scorer with 18 goals from 21 games.[6][1][7]
Moin spent the entirety of the 2018 SAFF U-15 Championship on the bench and was later left out of the under-15 team for the 2018 UEFA Assist U-15 Development Tournament and 2019 SAFF U-15 Championship.[1] In September 2019, English coach Rob Ryles included Moin in the squad for the 2020 AFC U-16 Championship qualifiers held in Doha, Qatar. On 20 September 2019, he scored his first international goal against Bhutan U16 during the qualifiers.[8]
During the 2019 UEFA Assist U-16 Development Tournament held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Moin scored a brace against both Cambodia U16 and Faroe Islands U16.[9][10] On 20 October 2019, he scored a hat-trick against Maldives U16 as Bangladesh were crowned undefeated champions.[11] Moin also ended the tournament as top scorer with 7 goals from 3 games.[7]