After scoring a hat-trick against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup final, although he could not win the top position, Kylian Mbappe still captured the hearts of fans with his performance.
On the football field, the French striker made a strong impression with his speed, technique and finishing shots that couldn’t have been more accurate. And out there, another generation of children in France is carrying a big dream, the dream of becoming “the next Mbappe” of French football.
Mbappe is the product of a spectacular training system, he is the latest “golden” name in the never-ending flow of top talents trained by this European country. Even with its success in training, France is said to be far ahead of Brazil, Germany and other powers and is considered a “factory” for football talents.
Since the end of the Cold War, no country has ever been able to maintain the success of domestic football through many generations of players. With “Les Bleus” they won their first World Cup in 1998, then in 2006 they again reached the final and lost to Italy. 12 years later, they successfully defeated Croatia to win the championship in 2018 and continued to reach the 2022 World Cup final.
At the moment, although Brazil, Germany, and Italy overall still have more titles, reaching their fourth final in just 24 years allows them to assert themselves as the best-performing team in the tournament. World Cup over the past three decades with 2/4 times lifting the prestigious championship trophy.
Notably, the last two times France reached the World Cup final, Kylian Mbappe always captured all the attention because of his talent. After the 24-year-old player brought the gold cup back to France for the first time, his former training center immediately received a lot of attention.
AS Bondy, where Mbappé played as a boy, is considered one of the starting points in the “factory” of French football talent. And what Mbappe brought to this country’s football scene has made many young players believe in what they can do in the future.”Mbappe motivates me, makes me want to practice harder” – Yacine Ngamatah (12 years old), a player who scored 4/10 home team goals in a match against a club from a suburb other of Paris, shares.
It is known that Yacine is trying his hand at Dijon, a professional football team playing in the second division of France. Besides his finishing ability, Ngamatah also possesses the ability to move tirelessly. For this reason, the boy was nicknamed N’Golo Kanté by his teammates. This nickname is taken from the name of the famous midfielder of the French team. In the past, Kanté himself also started his football career in a local Paris team, Suresnes.