By Thore Haugstad If you were to build a talent from scratch—a kind of superhuman football prodigy—you’d probably start with the genes. Give the kid a father who’s an ex-footballer and now a coach, and a mother who has played, say, professional handball. Place him in one of the hotspots for youth development, like the suburbs [...]
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Kylian Mbappé: The French Phenomenon
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Ibrahim Ba
Ibrahim Ba is a retired professional player with a career spanning over 17 years. Teams included Le Havre, Bordeaux, AC Milan, Perugia, Olympique Marseille, Bolton Wanderers, Cayku Rizespor in Turkey, and Djurgården in Sweden. Currently he is working on completing the final stages of the elite level coaching license We discuss his upbringing in [...] More -
Baky Soumare
Bakary “Baky” Soumare is a former professional player with a career spanning almost ten years. He represented MLS teams Chicago Fire, Philadelphia Union, Montreal Impact and FC Dallas, US Boulogne in Ligue 1 & 2 (France), and Karlsruher SC in Germany Currently he is the Chairman of PITCH Concepts, a company he founded during [...] More