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. To hear more about my trip to Bondy, you can listen to this NPO Radio 1 broadcast from Langs de Lijn en Omstreken.
