An important part of the game is that it keeps youngsters away from the drugs and the street bandits that ... “Everyone is obsessed with football in Bondy. I have lived here for 35 years after ...

And it is part of the infamous Seine St Denis 93rd arrondissement ... Mbappe’s Cameroon-born dad Wilfried was a respected football coach for AS Bondy, where Mbappe began playing aged just ...

‘I can be someone, I can be someone,” say the kids playing football in Bondy, Kylian Mbappe’s birthplace. The 19-year-old, who wasn’t even born when France won their first World ...

Bondy, France – In the northern Paris suburb of Bondy, the local football club is buzzing with activity. Children and teenagers are being put through their paces by a coach shouting instructions ...