Many of France's best football players come from problematic surroundings. When they reach stardom, they are forced to walk a difficult line between fame and fortune – and the envy of their former friends. Some fall off or become targets of extortion.
Nolan Doudy is at the age when dreams of a career in football could actually come true."I want to become a professional," he says. At the moment, however, he’s doing all he can not to cry. In the second half of the game, he limped off the field with a thigh injury. And then, his team, the U-13 squad from Union Sportive Roissy-en-Brie, went on to lose against archrival Le Mée-sur-Seine 2:3. He can hardly hold back his tears.
They are headline-grabbing cases, but nonetheless represent a small sample of a much larger problem: According to a well-placed, unnamed source speaking to the daily, there are hundreds of extortion victims like Pogba. It’s just that nobody dares to talk about it openly.Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was honored in Paris as the winner of this year's Ballon d'Or.The crimes involve money and envy, violence and extortion, real friends and fake friends.
Players on the German national team come almost exclusively from middle-class backgrounds. In France, by contrast, football is a sport for the societal periphery. The"quartiers populaires," or"people’s quarters" as the ghetto-like settlements are shame-facedly referred to, produce unending supplies of soccer talent, not unlike the favelas of Brazil.
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