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Paris: Football鈥檚 Greatest Talent Factory
Paris: Football鈥檚 Greatest Talent Factory.
Some call it the City of Love and others the City of Lights - but would a more accurate nickname for Paris be the City of Football?
After all, not only were there 11 Parisians in the France World Cup squad - but there were also players born in the city鈥檚 suburbs playing for Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Qatar, Cameroon, Ghana, Portugal and Germany.
So what is it about the Banlieue that helps create such amazing football talent? 麻豆社 World Service goes inside the clubs that created Kylian Mbappe, Thierry Henry, and N鈥橤olo Kante, we speak to the coaches who helped launch incredible careers and we meet some of the street footballers who turned into international stars.