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Paris: Football’s Greatest Talent Factory

Paris: Football’s 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’s 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? BBC World Service goes inside the clubs that created Kylian Mbappe, Thierry Henry, and N’Golo Kante, we speak to the coaches who helped launch incredible careers and we meet some of the street footballers who turned into international stars.

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50 minutes