Mitchell Baker is a naturalized candidate for the Indonesian national team and is projected to be the spearhead of the Garuda squad in the future.
Reported from various sources, Monday, Mitchell Baker currently plays for the Georgetown University club in the NCAA competition in the United States.
Baker was born on December 11, 2006 in Melbourne, Australia and is now 19 years old and still holds Australian citizenship.
The player who plays as a striker has Indonesian descent from his mother Maureen Lee Baker, where his grandparents were born in Indonesia.
His grandfather, Han Koen Lie, was born in Yogyakarta on January 19, 1937, while his grandmother was born in Semarang on May 27, 1940.
Maureen then married Australian citizen Daniel Robert Baker who was born in Geelong on December 9, 1968.
Baker began his youth football career with Hong Kong Football Club at the age of 10, playing for three years there, before moving to Australian clubs Northcote City and Melbourne Victory in 2020-2022.
After that, in 2022-2024 he moved to the United States club Black Rock FC and joined the junior team, while in 2024 he anchored at Georgetown University and continued his education there.
In January 2026, the Major League Soccer (MLS) club Colorado Rapids selected Mitchell Baker through the MLS SuperDraft system to join their team in late 2026.
Today, Commission X of the Indonesian House of Representatives approved the application for naturalization of soccer athlete Mitchell Lee Baker to become an Indonesian citizen (WNI) submitted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
