Real Madrid have recently completed the signing of French sensation Ferland Mendy, a 24-year-old left-back from Lyon.
He had to come through a long and hard way to be presented at the Estadio Santiágo Bernabéu.
Born in Meulan-en-Yvelines, France, Mendy is of Senegalese descent. The town was with a population of just 4,000, in the north-east of Paris and he started his footballing journey there, playing as a striker.
It's clear that the full-back had joy and passion for football, but a serious hip injury when he was 14 left him in a wheelchair for six months and told that he might never play football again! While he also had to overcome a setback aged 11 with the death of his father.
Also difficult for the youngster was his passage through the PSG academy, the club where he started playing at left-back and where learned to play with both feet but the club he left to join Mantois in the fourth division.
That eventually led to a move to Le Havre, a club known for producing young talent.
From there, after being named the best full-back in Ligue 2 he went to Lyon in 2017 for a fee of five million euros, incredible considering he has just been sold for 48m euros, plus a potential 5m euros in add-ons.
He has improved even further at Lyon and has even been called up by France, this despite never featuring for any of the other French youth categories.
Now he is a Real Madrid player, despite some interest from Barca as well. He is a supreme talent who is still needed to be polished and we all know, Zinedine Zidane is a master at it.
©Soham
He had to come through a long and hard way to be presented at the Estadio Santiágo Bernabéu.
Born in Meulan-en-Yvelines, France, Mendy is of Senegalese descent. The town was with a population of just 4,000, in the north-east of Paris and he started his footballing journey there, playing as a striker.
It's clear that the full-back had joy and passion for football, but a serious hip injury when he was 14 left him in a wheelchair for six months and told that he might never play football again! While he also had to overcome a setback aged 11 with the death of his father.
Also difficult for the youngster was his passage through the PSG academy, the club where he started playing at left-back and where learned to play with both feet but the club he left to join Mantois in the fourth division.
That eventually led to a move to Le Havre, a club known for producing young talent.
From there, after being named the best full-back in Ligue 2 he went to Lyon in 2017 for a fee of five million euros, incredible considering he has just been sold for 48m euros, plus a potential 5m euros in add-ons.
He has improved even further at Lyon and has even been called up by France, this despite never featuring for any of the other French youth categories.
Now he is a Real Madrid player, despite some interest from Barca as well. He is a supreme talent who is still needed to be polished and we all know, Zinedine Zidane is a master at it.
©Soham
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