For Dutch newspaper Trouw, I took the RER from Paris to suburb Bondy. This ‘banlieue’ is famous for raising famous soccer players such as Kylian Mbappé.
But as Mbappé, from Cameroonian-Algerian descent, chose to play for France, many other players who were born and raised in France decided to play for the countries their families are from — this World Cup is therefore also dubbed ‘the World Cup of migrants’. How do they look at this development in Bondy?
Read the reportage story here; or tap here to read my column about the political stances Mbappé likes to make against the far right, and why some French commentators think that his remarks are causing division.
