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Thierry forgot to mention that there are free footbal stadiums to practice everywhere in the suburbs of Paris. So as a kid you have somewhere to go after school to play with guys older than you and you learn a lot. No to menton all the cheap football clubs you can play in.
thats very cool
That sounds awesome. More places in Europe should do something like that. Open up football for everyone to play at all ages ❤
Great incentive and good info to know, I'm sure a lot of scouts wag their tails networking in these areas, not a fan of France's team, but definitely been seeing the team improve and earn a spot in the top 5 teams in the world since France 98.
I have family that lives in a tiny village outside of Metz. There's a farmer in their village that setup a portion of his fields to be a football pitch. When I was growing up I'd go visit my cousins and we'd play from morning to night. The field was also nicer than the majority of fields I grew up playing on here in the US.
That is such a Dream!
When I visited Paris for the first time last summer I got to watch a group of people playing Basketball and another group of people playing football. The people playing basketball were decent and not bad but I've obviously seen people way better at basketball back home so it wasn't anything surprising. But my god when I saw the group of people playing football they were insane! Parisians are literally cracked at football, I've never seen anything like it before. They had such a flow and rhythm with the ball and play with so much passion and creativity. It is very obvious and clear why France is the best in the world when you see a bunch of strangers playing like professionals.
U need to see more then
Are you American?
Thats every country in west europe though
@@kogiman yes I am from the US lol
@@voetbalbertu mean to tell me the quality in Luxembourg or Switzerland or Ireland in the streets its the same as Paris , London , Lisbon , Amsterdam?
When I lived in Paris for a year, I was shocked at how good everyone was. Even the kids who did not look athletic were ballers.
In the hood, being athletic doesn't mean that much, football-wise. At a more involved and later professional level, of course, it has become important. But I remember where I grew up, when some kid had something special and had skills, he could easily be nicknamed "Chris Waddle". 2024 people need to see what the guy looked like at his peak in Marseille.
I lived in Buenos Aires for a bit of time and it was similar there. The weekend league I played in was full of ballers. Old or young, they all can play.
I have an anecdotical experience in England. So I grew in Paris suburb and like all kids of my age used to play football. I wasn't bad but wasn't good either, I knew I will never be a professional very early, because I played with monsters who were insanely good in my eyes and didn't make it. My best friend was a scoring machine, scoring 5 to 8 goals per game. And no one scouted him. So if this guy couldn't make it, it will not be me.
So during middle school I made a trip in England for learning the language. One month in local family in Plymouth. Nice people. Big cultural shock for me. And one day I just met some boys playing football, and join them, they understood quickly I wasn't local, and we struggled to communicate, but football was there to help.
Playing with them, I realize there was a huge gap between us. I absolutely crushed them. I was faster, more technical, more accurate. It was like playing with toddlers from my pov. They were shock and I was shock too. They thought I was some kind of genius. Long story shorts they introduced me to their manager.
It was during the reign of Titi in the EPL. So I end up training with them for three weeks 😂 before returning to France. But they really tough I was a new kind of Henry.
The thing is, when you're😢 surrounded by good players, you adapt and become good without knowing it. And it pass threw generations, because the little ones play with the older ones. So you have in Paris a capital of middle level players who are very good by international Standart. Same phenomenon in Brazil Sao Paulo.
I went to Brazil for vacations, and the level of your average beach player is insane. I've seen kids playing Foot volley like it was normal. No it's not. It's insanely hard. 😅
Why was Henry reluctant to mention the quality of the French youth coaches who work at the French academies? Henry himself received expert level youth coaching at INF Clairefontaine as a child
Because most of them never went to Claire Fontaine.
@@johannesvonsaaz3987 Claire Fontaine is just one example. The club academies themselves have elite level youth coaches who nurture the young players. The French youth football training methodology is the best in the world
coaching is cliche , he’s mentioning what people wouldn’t know
Great point. People often overlook the importance and values of teachers.
Translation: "Why didn't Henry praise my people? He is what he is because of us."
as someone from paris ill explain it. if you cant play here, you cant play. meaning that people will bully you, mock you, and wont let you play with them if u suck. if u cannot go past 5 players by urself doin 3 nutmegs ppl wont let you play forward. if u cant pass like kroos and keep the ball under pressure like busquets they will force you to play goalkeeper. im not even talking about the ridiculous amount of time people play football. when i was younger it was literally normal to go out at 11am, eat with ur friends and play football from 1pm to literally 10pm when lights are completly gone and u cant see anymore. we also play a LOT indoors on handball/futsal field where u have to be super technical. theres really a lot of things that make it like that but yeah the culture makes it that everyone has to be able to do EVERYTHING on the pitch or u are viewed as trash. its the way we learn how to play, we play to have fun so it builds us different than someone who tries to play "proper" football.
I grew up playing 'milieu'. litteraly the FC Barcelona toro, but that's what you play at 8. You also play 'un coup par terre' ie one strike max on the ground or 'le mur' ie hit the wall like squash. these are really good exercices. if you excel in these (i did not) you'll be a baller.
This was the same in London in the 80s / 90s the only difference was... scouts only wanted the BIG strong lads, they didn't care about technical players.
Les bons souvenirs !!!!!!!!!!! Je rentrais à la maison à la nuit tombée
Stop lying about people force you to be goal keeper I am a street goal keeper because I like this position and I force people to go to the field if they don’t do the work as goalkeeper
@@seto5855 he's not lying the one who play gk is almost always the less skilled or the fattest guy
Football is the most accessible sport to impoverished areas, it doesn’t matter about your colour, religion, social/economic standing - Best sport in the world!
Diversity and Immigration is the biggest factor here. You have children of immigrants from the French Caribbean, North and West Africa all mixed in bring their own flair and attributes together with the fantastic coaching. London has the same diversity but it lacks on the coaching front when compared to France.
PSG have to take advantage of this as Henry said. You have kids literally on your doorstep who support and want to play for you… focus on them and I actually think you’ll be closer to achieving your goals as you think
100%. Plus some immigrants from neighbouring countries like Italy & Spain. Insane diversity
England doesnt really have a footballing culture like france. You dont see people playing football on the street all night like you do in paris or north africa. England has a culture of watching football but the streets are dead.
@@ExecutionerHopkins We do, France might just have MORE of a football culture. In my neighbourhood, we'd play football after school all the time. Football was ALWAYS played in the parks where it says "No ball games allowed". Football is BY FAR the most played sport in school in England. And not because it's pushed by teachers, the kids CHOSE to play football at break time & lunch time. When we'd get rewarded with a longer break, we'd play MORE football.
I really wonder how many of you actually grew up in England, particularly London. For reference, I'm from east London. Very working class, tons of immigrants & 1st generation kids, a lot of footballing talent. EXTREMELY similar to Paris.
England won the U20 world cup 7 years ago, and the U21 Euros LAST YEAR. We may not have as much talent as Paris, but we're right up there.
@@ExecutionerHopkins😂😂😂 I can tell you for a fact that we do have football culture in England. Like I mentioned before I think we are and we’re so behind scouting/coaching wise that a lot of these street footballers were never picked up and teams only wanted a certain profile of player. It’s changing now but unfortunately with technology and other things there are less kids on the streets playing nowadays
Immigrants? You know all the Caribbean islands is part of france none of those who come are “immigrants” Maignan Payet Varane etc are not children of immigrants just a correction there
Plus Paris and its suburbs have one of the highest density of populaiton in the world. Similar to Mumbai. So you have all the ingredients :
- Millions of people who love football.
- When you're from an immigrant family, especially in a poor neighborhood, you don't have a lot of role models. But you have Platini, Cantona, Zidane, Henry, Vieira, Benzema, Kanté, Mbappé... to look up to.
- Lots of street football : if you want to play, you have to earn it against older, tougher guys.
- And in the same time : lots of organized football. if you're good, you're gonna get detected early, be coached and trained with professionals.
Zidane was born in Marseille, Karim Benzema was born in Lyon their not from Paris
@@boogy1033 I didn't want to imply that they're from Paris, I just meant that they all had immigrant parents and come frome these poor neighborhoods.
Only maybe one or two of the players from the current football team come from poor neighbourhoods. Mbappé didn't grow up in a poor neighbourhood whatsoever and is from a middle class family. His mother was born in France and his father arrived in France as a toddler. He recieved a very good education and if he didn't follow a football path he would have pursued high level studies.
He didn't learn to play football in the streets either but like most French football players he simply enrolled the local football club, where his father was the coach, then thanks to his talent he could move to better football training programmes. That's the typical path for anyone who wants to become a pro football player in France.
"When you're from an immigrant family, especially in a poor neighborhood, you don't have a lot of role models"
And you are also facing a lifetime of dire economic opportunity - France has a greater level of discrimination in the labour market compared to the UK, Germany or Italy - as well as a school system that is very badly ranked internationally, thus letting down its pupils. Hence football is the only way out.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia People coming from immigrant families in France face a lifetime of dire economic opportunity according to what stats?
Same question about your blanket statement about the higher level of discrimination?
107 of Afcon players are born in France, let that sink in for the moment 🤣
colonisation
@@agnelo000Not good enough to play for France*
@@swedishboi3208Like who Mahrez 😂? You must be mad, the whole French team is Africans.
Since Ribery retired, even the French players (Besides Giroud) don't play or contribute to the French team. Griezmann was briefly one of the best players - otherwise the rest of them are average - at best.
It was the same in 98 with Barthez, Blanc and Pires. Africans made up the entire midfield, defense and attack besides that! Desailly, Thuram, Makelele, Vieira, Zidane, Trezeguet, Henry, Silvestre, Wiltord and later Gallas.
Besides Rabiot and Loris which French natives play/ contribute regularly now? I can't think of any others besides the 4 i've mentioned. And besides Rabiot, the others will all be retiring soon/ don't play much.
@@rickenfataniaall of them are born and raised in france so fully French, while the 100 players we are talking about are born, raised and trained in France. So if you wanna say something like your first phrase it should be « african teams are french ». We all know that France and many African countries share a common and complicated history (for some part of it, the most recent), but people should stop with this narrative of « French team full of african players »
@@swedishboi3208 France leans on people from other origins, France dont produce stuff anymore 😂
With gentrification the “street ballers” will be less of a thing. I’m not trying to be political but it’s just true. Cage football builds character and if you close and knock that down just coming thru the academy ONLY will make less technical ballers
Exactly. That's one of the many reasons Brazilians and Futsol are so enduring. Just look at the carousel of full-backs they produce. Even Charlton plied his trade on the streets.
There's no gentrification in the suburbs of Paris. We're talking about mini council estate towns that haven't been touched since the 60s and where there is no plan to change anything
Similarly it's why Brazil haven't been as successful in WC's recently. The players are moving to Europe too early and losing some of that Samba flair. Street football is the essence!
@@rizzzlaaa Exactly nobody is moving to the suburbs, you're born there.
@@jualinachomoza That Joga Bonito does not hold weight anymore in modern day football, Brazil is trying to adapt, what a world we live in lol.
I’m born and raised in New York and I’m born into a family that loves football. My mom is born and raised in the suburbs of Paris and my uncles would play day and night. It was a hobby for them and so even if the level in the US is getting better when I go to Paris in the summer and go play you fell the difference and that’s how I got way better over the years. I wouldn’t be at the level Im at today if I hadn’t gone to Paris every summer.
Competition is fierce in Paris suburbs.
The youth leagues are very well organised.
When the best meets the best - you can only get better
There’s an amazing documentary out called Concrete Football or Ballon Sur Bitume. Riyad Mahrez is in it, and Ousmane Dembele as well. Football in the streets of France is like basketball in the US. Folks play all day and all night. If you can’t ball you get clowned, so you better bring your A game.
As a French dude all I can say is he resumed it very well : Diversity + street football
Specially street football put us in the same category with Brazil
with all due respect, but France still is way behind Brazil in that overall. Brazilians produce so many players about 30% of then go to play beach soccer or futsal, like about 50% of europe and asian national futsal teams have brazilians in then. And although with the recent imigration Paris has produced even more players historically it is still a distant third to Buenos Aires (2nd) and Rio (1st) in terms of the amount of talent born there. Would argue Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Rosario could fight for that third place but I would still go with Paris overall
I heard Zidane and Mesut Ozil said they learned their technical skills from playing street football
@@Luckymag-if4dw France has better stats in regular football, futsal represents nothing compared to it, you can compare it with handball
@@ky7647what stats are those? Coz for what I know France is nowhere near the top in any stat in "regular" football. They are a top nation but in all competitions (world cup, confederations cup, olympics, u17 and u20 world cups) Brazil leads the all time table, France ain't even on the top 3 in any of those
@@Luckymag-if4dw In world cup 2018 alone, 50 players on the competition were born, raised and trained in France, only 26 for Brazil, that's half less, plus Brazil never passed world cup quarter finals in 10 years while France was in final twice, one of them being a victory in 2018. Just look at FIFA's national team official ranking : France is 2nd just behind Argentina while Brazil is 5th behind Belgium and England and the 2 teams I already mentioned
The answer is simple.
In Paris football is open to everyone from all social classes, rich, poor, middle etc. In England football is for middle and rich class. To play football it costs money in England but it’s free in France.
Football a middle class sport in England???? What have I just read 😂😂
Football is immensely popular for all classes and ages. A fair portion of Englands players are working class and from the north.
you mean USA, most best players in england came from nothing
Definitely the London area is very expensive. The focus is not to play excellently but to get signed, which is a shame. In Paris, there's adequate coaching by a raft of former players for almost free.. So with the hours put in, you're bound to get good players
more than half of English players are working class. then good portion are middle class. Only a few rich kids
@@robert_bah South London’s working class neighbourhoods have produced dozens of current top-flight players
One of the reason that I think is overlooked is simply French teams needs to produce young players, to replace players that leave France for a big league or a paycheck. Every year most teams in France loose 4 or 5 important players, why replace them with foreign players and spend money, when you can simply use your academy and the talent pool of the big French cities.
It also help that France has one of the best youth system in the world, with heavy investement into academies and youth coaches.. If not I'm mistaken both Germany and England have come to France in the 90's to get some insight to why France youth academies were so effective at producing young talent, and partially reworked their system because of it.
It also helps the devlopement of players when you start playing profesionnally at really young age which is usually the case in France. I would be really intersted to see a average of when players have their professional debut by country.
Correct. many players that made the Premier League this big were from France. (Kante, Mahrez etc..) We need to retain more.
Totally, we have a quite bad and boring domestic league. We are unable to keep our best players but at least the turnover let a chance for younger players to step in and to see early if they have the potential to become great. Great for the national team, really bad for the domestic league
The real reason why France has so many great players now is that France finally took football seriously in the late 80s and created academies like Claire fountaine. Previously to that, the idea of a kid wanting to be a footballer as a profession was considered a joke and brushed off.
Perhaps it's more that the pipeline from the suburbs into pros that's special? Lots of places produce great players in big city suburbs, so it must be that Paris somehow excels at getting them into the next step where others aren't as good
I'm from Paris and I also couldn't find a reason but i think you're the closest to the reality. You could say that it's an escape for us from harsh realities but what about Sao Paulo kids ?
It's mainly the infrastructures and the recruiting system and the training of those kids as well.
Henry mentioned a lot of times his times in Clairefontaine where he would be able to elevate his game at such a young age. Even myself when we were young we were hearing stories of friends joining clubs at the age of 13 which is crazy young but helps more improving their professional skills.
@@maamsssss What Sao Paolo and France have in common is genetic diversity. Black african mixed with a bunch of other stuff creates good athletes. Put a lot of them in a small area with nothing to do but play football, you'll produce footballers.
@@tc98826 Okay dude, eugenics is not the reason. It's mopre likely that it's seen as an from poverty combined with the massive infrastructure in place.
That's why England never win anything
@@tc98826what a lousy reason
love titi such a good guy
You can also see that the standard of amateur/semi-pro teams/players in Paris suburbs/around Paris is higher with another angle : Every year when the Coupe De France is on, you'll be amazed to see how far in the cup those teams go rounds after rounds compared to any other amateur/semi-pro teams in France.
We also have to say that the power of attraction of Paris region in France is unmatched. You can find people from every corner of France there, even from the farthest territories like those in the Caribbean (Martinique and Guadeloupe), South America (French Guiana) or Southeast Africa (la Reunion).
As a frenchmen from the countryside every time I was in holidays at my couzin place in Paris we use to play every day from morning to night. Every one was at the "city", that is how we are calling this type of little pitch. The big brothers were playing to, with us. It was more we played with them. And there weren't nice, there weren't taking care if you were young or skin or anything there were playing ( and talking) hard. Which also make the young players more agressive early and also more strong mentaly.
That's a cool story but the fact is it's because you keep importing loads of fast Africans. Even 98 you had like 3 french players on the pitch.
@@BeBe-vh4ry These players of African origin were born in France
You dont know what you're talking about man, these players you're talking about grew up in France and played in these "citystade" as we call them @@BeBe-vh4ry
@@BeBe-vh4ryFrench is not a race it's a nationality, if French is a race 95% of French are not real french since they are of roman decent and the original inhabitants of France are the Gallic people. The only difference is that Gallic people were massacred and replaced by white people, so you feel it's alright.
@@TheTotoyesyes lmfao, I do love how you mental people both re-write history and fail to spot the irony in going back 1000 years but saying people who came 10 years ago are the same. Bravo 😂
Great laugh by Jamie at the end 😂
PSG have missed out on many amazing players from their own academy somehow. They lost Coman, Nkunku, Diaby and Maignan before they ever reached their true potential
But it will come. Now mbappe is living that's the last galactico. These years were wasted with Neymar Messi etc.
Psg always want South American football player but they dont understand the real talent is in Paris
Riyad and kanté are my favorite
As a American, I went to Paris two summers ago and the street FOOTBALLERS there are the most skillful players I’ve ever played against
I love that guy😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍 thank you titi for everything you do for France!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏 you're the boss
I was born and lived in Paris and now live in Britain. Coaching aside in my opinion the biggest 2 reasons are:
No1: There are lot's of good quality street pitches. As a kid you play with all different races and ages you either develop technique or physicality or both. (Lot's of in game experience)
No2: Grass or 3G pitches are mostly free including the 11 a side monsters you have to pay over £150 an hour for here in Britain.
There's no reason why somewhere like London should and could be like Paris.
Exactement 💯 🇫🇷 I actually live in Paris (born and raised) and your comment sums up everything, the government invested a lot in football facilities in Paris and also in the suburbs and most of them are free I can find 4 football pitches at less than 1 kilometer from my neighborhood easily.
Its a combination of genetic diversity and a very good French youth football system.
It's really not even their youth systems. Every child just plays whether its for a team or just with neighborhood friends. They all just play from a really young age.
@@bgorski6937 thats not unique to French suburbs. Kids in poor areas around the world do that.
Im french from Bondy like Kylian Mbappé, you not wrong but you need to understand, the infrastructure and training centers are the best since 80s, all of Europe is influenced by the French academy EDF Clairefontaine.
That why the French are the best players in the big leagues in any position (Gk,wingers,St,Cm,Cb,LB,RB).
I don't forget the Brazilians who continue to send a lot of talent to Europe but the quality is no longer like before.
Genetic diversity is a strange way of saying African. It’s ok to call Africans African
@@JasonSwihart-bt2od Africa is the most genetically diverse continent. So what I said was accurate. But yes youre right, African genes (sub and west) are the secret sauce. It needs a mix though. Eg Mbappe is Algerian and Cameroonian.
❤Thank you very much for your advice and professional insight
Mahrez ❤🇩🇿🥰
Paris is no doubt the european city of street football ⚽️
Please, Hollande and Belgium are the réal street place of football, not France...
Looks the indoor football level!!!!!
I’d love to hear a German guest discuss why Berlin is not a football powerhouse similar to the other European capital cities
Probably because of Berlin being split between East and West Germany until the fall of wall in 1989. And Berlin being in Eastern Germany where football wasn't pushed by East Germany governement, on top of having way less investement in professional sport because of communist governement wanting to keep sports at amateur level.
Yeah this is a mystery considering Berlin is quite diverse
Most likely find it's root in the fact that Berlin was split in half till 1989 between East and West Germany, and Berlin was located inside East Germany teritory . This probably halted the devlopement of Football in Berlin considering Football wasn't has popular in East Germany, compared to the West .
East Germany wasn't focused on football and actively keept sports amateur, largely focusing on less expensive sports like Gymnastics or Track and Field.
HITC Sevens published a video called ''Why Are Germany's Best Football Clubs All In The West? '' about a year ago that can give you more context.
you should watch the Copa90 derby days Berlin documentary Hertha vs Union... a lot of good insights into football in Berlin
berlin is not diverse but muslim.@@michael43567
Kingsley Coman and M'bappe are good exemples but there have been more lately. N'Kunku and Mike Maignan were not proposed a decent contract and left. Now they are both in the French national team and probably there to stay.
i think also the economic pressure of having parent that are not very well financially and on average not as educated compare to the other french people push them do try to make it quick and sacrifice a lot. when henry was saying that music and football is a solution a lot of kid to make it fast i agree, they think they cant wait 5 years after being 18 to have a master because their parents need them. also it may be hard if their parent do not speak well or didn't study much to see the opportunity in long term study. add to that excellent infratructure and a lot of small football ground in between the tower of the banlieus. Maybe minority being push more toward sport by orientaion adviser ? and finally having the biggest legend of the french team being people like ZZ, henry, benzema, thuram, mabppe they can clearly identify with. but as a french football fan its almost like dream to see our team shine, every week we got a new talent u21 showing in on the biggest stage. between the like of barcola, zaire emery, mathys tel, sacha boey, malo gusto, leny yoro, lukeba, saliba... the future look like it reserve us a lot of great games ahead of us
London has 17 professional football clubs and Paris has only 2!!! London should be producing way more top professional footballers if Paris has only 2 clubs. Thats crazy that a city with only 2 clubs are producing way more top elite footballers than a city with 17 clubs and population is similar
I think both produce a lot of top footballers but French footballers are more technical than English why they get more attention and that technicality is learned playing street football
Having only 2 and ½ professional clubs in Paris (PSG, Paris FC and Red Star 93) is an anomaly indeed, but we have a multitude of semi-professional clubs in Île-de-France (Gobelins FC, BBAC, Créteil Lusitanos, Versailles FC, Fleury 91, AS Poissy, Torcy PVM, RC Paris, etc...)
French players are so special and not overhyped like the english
I'm not English but the UK has some pretty good players u sound like u just like to hate on England, theirs some players that r overhyped but so does another of nations like Brazil for example Rafihna
U didn’t see how unbelievable English squads have been currently and in the past?
Difference is ligue 1 is a farmers league and the prem is the best in the world for fans and making money.
You probably think Trent and Kane are overhyped
Im french from Bondy like Kylian Mbappé,
France has the best training centers since the 80s, all of Europe is influenced by the French academy EDF Clairefontaine.
That why the French are the best players in the big leagues in any position (Gk,St,Wingers,Cm,Cb,LB,RB).
I don't forget the Brazilians who continue to send a lot of talent to Europe but the quality is no longer like before.
Henry with some dribble 🤤
This is the beauty of football. You can play it anywhere and all it takes is a few guys and a ball. Everybody can play it.
When talent meets opportunity, plenty of great potential playwrs in africa, but without the opportunity guven by the infrastructure in France, the the talent cant be harnessed
Exactly. That's what I said too. Since Qatar opened training centers in Africa and after changing its immigration policy, Qatar is two successive Asian champions. But Qatar's teams are far from equaling those of Europe and their championship as well. And their immigration policy is still inferior unlike France.
Everybody loves to talk about Paris. But the last 2 french players to won ballon d'or where from Lyon and Marseille. (Benzema & Zidane) Griezman was close to get one and he is from Lyon to.
Ribery from the North.
The point is not the top top talent but overall . Look haaland is from Noraway who never produces great players. you shouldn't focus on ballon d'or level but more on number of players who could play champions league level , gives a better idea
You got a point.
Playing great football has nothing to do with race or skin color, and of course not with "diversity".@@tayloryoung9803
The best academy in France is Olympique Lyon, they produced more champions league level player, like Ben Arfa, Benzema, Fekir, Ferland Mendy, Houssem Aouar, Anthony Martial, Umtiti, Tolisso, Lacazette, Bradley Barcola, Malo Gusto, Lukeba, Ryan Cherki @@tayloryoung9803
Thierry Henry's insights must be incredibly fascinating, especially when it comes to the topic of Paris producing many great footballers. Paris has a rich history in football, and it's always intriguing to hear about the factors that contribute to the emergence of talented players from this region. The unique blend of cultural diversity, top-notch training facilities, and a deep passion for the sport in Paris undoubtedly plays a big role in nurturing world-class talent. It's always so inspiring to learn about the journeys and backgrounds of these athletes! 🌟⚽🇫🇷
Lot of small clubs in the suburb of Paris with good volunteer trainers, soccer field almost everywhere, and a dream of success for these kids and their families who don't dream about studies.
In addition to this :
- The academies in Paris that train little youngsters and enhanced their talent + the mentality of hard work
- Suburbs that have “free stadiums” for anyone to go and play
- Pretty much as Henry mention , the #1 sport is football so its also a passion
- Unlike in many other countries , France and many other places see every single kid as a huge potential prospect and will give resources to them if needed. Just an example , Peru currently is suffering a big downfall other than corruption , its because the football academies in Peru is a business , you are pretty much paying and if you have talent but no money , tough luck then. Even in Argentina who are in economical crisis , clubs will even paid housing and train young talents for free. They learned their lesson when they let go Messi to Barca lmao , so now every talent they see they will help them push it.
Hour last point is invalid, ALOT of kids who made it in football were rejected by french academies and clubs, Mahrez had to go on his own and Griezmann had to go to Spain, and that’s the case of alor of players when they are a bit slower to develop physically
@@AmbitiousAlgiers these are exceptions we are talking in general
If you were looking for at players who actually got their football education in London, the London number would be much higher for example Musah, Musiala and Lamptey were all in London team academies growing up but were just not born in London .
But they haven’t led to winning senior international competitions yet
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Sorry but no, London is no where near Paris in terms of talent production. The numbers speak for themselves. Paris has produced some legendary footballers.
Clubs use their young talents to overcome financial fairplay, just look at chelsea they sold their boy Mount and want Mc Gallagher out next.. just to sell them to rivals but it generates them a lot of clean profit. It‘s a big problem ffp created.
Musiala was born in Germany yes but lived in england from 7 to 16 , so its kinda shared, if we consider key years are from 5 to 20
The main reason is that in every low income housing you have a place to play. For boys this is the main activity. Very young kids play countless hours and develop skills that they don’t really teach you at the academy. Mahrez is a perfect example. The way that he dribbles, in any club they would have yell at him as a kid to pass the ball. But because he was able to develop his dribbling ability in his neighborhood with no one on his back. When finally he joined a professional structure he had something in his arsenal that very few had. In France join a club also is not very expansive and complicated. You have a huge diversity in the different neighborhoods and also a very competitive mindset. Games between different neighborhoods of a same city are crazy. It happened to me to see games and asked who is this guy and what is his team ? And people answering that this guy had never played in a club. Some comments mentioned that the coachs are not talked about enough but trust me french coachs are not that great. Look at the different big clubs in europe, how many have french coaches or look how the french clubs perform in europe. France producing countless footballers has more to do with the number of talents present in the country because of the time they spent playing first outside of the professional structure and second when they join clubs in england, italy, germany or spain to go to the next level.
There is nowhere in the UK where you can go and play football. You have to pay to play or use facilities - that’s fine in summer because you can find a park to play but outside of that there is nowhere to play. This is different in Paris, kids play football anywhere and everywhere - there are so many places to play.
Yeah I mean we know it well as Aussies. Aggregate 6-2 last two matches vs them, but interesting to hear Thierry talk about it
You know, people from Paris suburbs can play for many countries. Sau Paulo players can mostly play for Brasil
That's not true I just looked at the são paulo team photo and there are many black and white players so the black players in São Paulo can play for their homeland in Africa and the white players for their homeland in Europe
@@nuyt6 In Paris suburbs there are probably a lot of immigrants. In Sao Paulo in turn I believe there are mostly local people
@@arturgudiev6013this doesn’t make sense. They are mainly all paris born so paris locals. Many Brazilians have switched to italy (jorginho etc) and spain so yeah
@@arturgudiev6013 They don't look very local to me I see a lot of Africans and some Europeans
@@nuyt6 Brazil immigration is much older than France. Black came from slavery more than 100 years ago, and the european descendants same thing, with a few exceptions form the XXth century.
There is almost no ties with their ancestors country, which for the African part mostly didn’t even exist in their modern form, if they only knew where it was. It is a mixed society with no clear background.
French immigration is much more recent (1 to 3 generations). Every black person knows his family back ground country, and they can easily access dual citizenship.
So France train them and their origin country can steal them to play for the other nation, where they have more chances to play. But some also chose for their personal preferences.
Combination of diversity, social pressure and drive (to "get out"), combined with a great (and nearly free) infrastructure, a network of volunteers at the lowest echelon, with also a nationwide strong academy program.
kate is soo stunning 🤩
She's really pretty I always notice these football female journalists on TV tend to be baddies LoL 😂
It’s quite simply immigration. Paris got the North African ballers and the physical west African in the same era. No where in the world can say that
......even so, the greatest french footballers were/are white: Kopa, Fontaine, Papin, Platini, Zizou, Griezmann.
@@andrekoerber7334 the two greatest French footballers of all time are easily Zidane and Henry, and guess what, they're of North African and West Indies descent. Good attempt at white-washing though. Try harder next time racist.
@@retrospective77I’m French, black his comment were not racist. You are the racist here.
@@andrekoerber7334Zizou hmmm really ?
@@exelmans8855that was racist when he said that Zidane was white lol.
He clearly don’t know anything about football.
In simple context due to the colonial past of France in Africa this will regeneration of talent will carry on for maybe another 25 years, France are still benefitting from modern day colonisation in many countries in Africa today!
its only half true. It doesnt matter they are african , it would be same with any migrant group. And its a win win situation. African teams get loads of talented footballers that they didnt have to even invest 1 euro. If not born and raised in France most African stars have been in youth ranks of french teams and then end up playing for their country in Africa, look at the morroccan team / algerian team or even Ivory Coast who just won ACN
Big cities means more football Clubs ...for any a kid who grew up in the country side or in a very small town , they have to travel for hours to practice and play football , while the Suburbs kids find a football club next block ..very different
I have my little nephew who lives in Los Angeles and plays football there. he is ten years old and plays at a very good level for there. he was several times California champion in his category. he plays in one of the best clubs in the city.....well when he comes to Paris for the holidays and he plays on an open field with my 8-year-old son and other kids.... ....his level is just normal😂😂😂......especially he doesn't understand the commitment that the kids put into actions, he is shocked to see how much motivation there is and how the game is hard!!!!! It proves that yes, football is serious here. the best championship is the English championship. but it's only a question of money, not talent. the largest training center currently in the world and where the most talent can be found. It's France. point.
We are number 1
Lost the final😂😂😂
He’s not gonna say it on national tv but I’ll say it here it’s also the African culture influence straight up facts, playing football in the streets of France is so so competitive apart from Africa itself or South America street football football is best played in France facts!
african culture ? what ?
@@houssedecouette4056 something you wouldn’t know anything about mate just leave it out
I'm from the suburbs of Paris it's very simple you have mix of people from Africa, Europe and french Caribbean and no money. You need a ball and 2 coat or vest to make the goal and that's it, you can 5 vs 5 or 2 vs 2 doesn't matter. You can Play on the grass or on the streets
I’m glad Thierry Henry did not give the reason why it happens in Paris. Because it’s a secret recipe😉. More seriously, he gave the very first part of it but then a lot of key things happens to make a young boy becoming a very good professional football player. They have tons of football fields for free, there are in each city at least one football club with excellent educators and the kids can go for free. The French academy of football takes care of these kids very early and polish their fantastic street football technic with essential football skills to become a professional, including discipline, strategy and tactics. Then another club like Monaco, Lyon, Rennes, and many others, scout these young players and take them to their academy. They will have scholarship classes and football. But they give them the possibility to play at a high professional level very early in Ligue 1 or Ligue 2. That’s why the French football players are so good so early, and mature in the way they play football.
Hopefully the French League will also become Top 3 in Europe and more competitive to watch.
Won't happen French clubs pay way more taxes than the other big European leagues, that's why French players always end up leaving France. We can't compete with the salaries from the other big league for that reason
Has an example when Lille won Ligue 1 in 2020/2021 they paid more taxes than all the team in Bundesliga combined.
@@jorisoims3085Then it's time for the French Government to change the Tax system over there
@@danielb7304I agree but it's not going to happen when France is highly indebted and the country already struggling financialy. But has a football fan and somebody who work with youth football, I agree it's a shame we can't keep our talent at home because of money.
@@jorisoims3085 Hopefully it will change and I don't see why French football has to be lower than Spanish as both countries I would say are in a similar economical position.
@@jorisoims3085Thank you URSSAF & Fisc
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Mix of french public athletes selection system with a large offer of soccer or handball outdoor field in suburbs, plus higher demography with west african genetics favoring muscular explosiveness and early spatial coordination in France are the reason .
France always had immigrants teams like 1958 (mostly Polish, Italian, African) or 1982 (mostly Spanish,Italian, Caribbean).
there is nothing to do with immigration other countries of europe like england italy have a lot of immigration but not as much players
Actually, no. Just by lokking at the names and pictures these teams weren't very diverse until recently. France has been so for almost a century. @@AminTurfu
@@ivanohemartin Exactly. That's what I said too. Since Qatar opened training centers in Africa and after changing its immigration policy, Qatar is two successive Asian champions. But Qatar's teams are far from equaling those of Europe and their championship as well. And their immigration policy is still inferior unlike France.
For me London and Paris are the two cities that produce the best young talent and the reason why is London and Paris are the most diverse European cities, with the biggest black populations. And it is clear big black population raise the standards athletically and technique-wise. You see that in Portugal, France, Belgium, England, Netherlands and even Switzerland. An example in England in the 1990s and early 2000s England used to struggle for creative flair players. But happened at youth level was in 2000s was London academies full of black kids started to dominate youth football, in Arsenal and Chelsea in particular dominated youth football from the 2000s. This led to big teams in other parts of England to start scouting black kids to try and catch up, meaning the youth system in England at an elite level was dominated by black kids by the 2010. This changed English football because the heroes of black kids were not typical white English players like Downing or Milner, but Brazilians and French players who were more skilful so this led to English players with higher skill levels and white kids in England had to adapt to this new level of skill to survive in the game. You don’t get Rice, Foden, Kane, Grealish, Elliot, Maddison and Gordon without the diversity of London and English football and you could say that about other countries too. With players like Griezmann, KDB, Hazard, Giroud,, Bernardo Silva and Fernandes and countries like Italy are in decline because they lack the diversity to raise standards.
Facts is one of the best examples of the importance of Diversity 👍
Dont forget the north africans in the big cities of europe
Italy won the euros a few years ago. The top 4 at the last WC were Croatia, France, Argentina & Morocco. And only rice Elliot , kane went to London academies. ?
some English bias here. What trophy has England won since the 1966 world cup???
Are u also perpetuating that the golden gen of Italy , of maldini, Nesta, baresi , milito dont come close to the England of today because they had no diversity?
the worst part of that is PSG dont even use properly (not just under quatar ownership) the gold they have all around them, they would make la Masia look like 2nd grade academy
Henry end up in monaco because they werent really sure and Monaco got plenty of scout/agent around Paris , and they have to spend 200M on Mbappe who was borned few miles away
so even they make in their academy many dont want to stay because they are just after thought of the whole PSG different ownership
Campos the football director look like he want to change that
As a French who grew up in the suburbs of a city (not Paris though) I can tell you that football is also one of the only things to do here if u don’t wanna sell anything illegal, so ppl gather at the small football pitch called the « city ». Also since Paris is most populated french town they got more ppl playing.
@rb026..How you mean don't want to sell anything illegal ? People go to university, they work, play rugby/football/basketball etc. Alot young people focus also on academics bro especially the African people in France they take school extremly serious as you know.
Well as a french African uni student , yeah that’s true but it’s usually more difficult for us to reach that. Even I use to do judo and my dad told me that it would be my back up plan if school goes wrong. Also in the suburbs there’s really not much to do away from football I exaggerated my statement to make my point but it’s still based on reality, and that’s even more true outside of Paris.
Ps:sry if it’s not clear English is a bit tricky 😅
@@rb026 But do the young ones in Paris or in the banlieu strive to go to university and build a carrier. Because not everyone can be a footballer.
The answer is migration
wrong: individual talent
Exactly. Since Qatar opened training centers in Africa and after changing its immigration policy, Qatar is two successive Asian champions. But Qatar's teams are far from equaling those of Europe and their championship as well. And their immigration policy is still inferior unlike France.
name me one french player that was trained in africa
Biggest Football cities on Earth. For talent Buenos Aires, London, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Madrid.
London lol not to the level of Paris, Holland and Spain produces more talented players than England, Paris is number 1 in Europe and Belgium is coming up aswell
@@Lowkey_AFC why are you talking about countries??? teh comment above is talking about cities. Please take reading comprehension lessons!
Madrid over Barcelona? Isn't La Masia one of the best academies?
Barcelona>>>>>madrid
Common denominator is that street footy is king in Paris, Sao Paolo and London. The most talented players will come from there
As a Parisian living in the UK for the past 12 years, The difference is the French Federation organization there are clubs with very cheap payment for every kid in every city and obviously, the infrastructure indoors and outdoors are close to free in every city!!! Kids don't pay to play. This is a huge difference. I used to play basketball inside and football all the time in France. In the UK i found it way too expensive and therefore not inviting... my humble opinion
Is it possible for Nba having this statistic ?
LA and New York more than likely produce the most talents in the US. Westbrook, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, klay Thompson, James harden, Reggie miller Paul pierce etc… they are all from the LA area.
ask lebron
“what did martial win?”
“the europa league, that’s all i’m missing” 🥶
The French 98 team was top two best international teams I've seen.
Diversity, and I can’t stress this enough, concrete! Playing football on concrete will develop your touch and skills like crazy.
Think he’s doing his very best to avoid saying the word ‘colonization’.
You mean immigration. Sweden has tons of immigration and it didn't colonize. France would have had tons of immigration even without colonisation due to leftwing politics.
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Exactly. That's what I said too. Since Qatar opened training centers in Africa and after changing its immigration policy, Qatar is two successive Asian champions. But Qatar's teams are far from equaling those of Europe and their championship as well. And their immigration policy is still inferior unlike France.
Kate you should get Eric Zemmour for a proper dessertation on this topic
Yes or LEPEN 🤣🤣🤣
Soccer it's an art that requires strong mentally and physique., France has the most straneous trials and concentration trainings. Amazing energy!
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its the culture of sport.
It’s Cus there African that’s why there so good
for a country that produces a great national team and great players, why are french leagues so bad?
Taxation
The talents don’t stay in the league for long and get poached by bigger clubs. Look at the French team hardly any of them still play in France.,
The lack of wages compared to the bigger leagues makes it hard to keep these young players
this is a 2 + 2 questions, they leave for the best team in the world, Chelsea
Money and taxation. Simple
few good match by a youth and they are sold , once the bosman rules and EU open working rules were apply to football , french team couldnt compete as club have to pay more to compete with other top league,
the french league was at his best in the 90s with club going to semi or sometimes final on regular basis on any of the 3 european competition
probably outside of Rio and Buenos Aires Paris has produced the most amount of talent in the history of football really... maybe Sao Paulo or Rosario would fight for that third spot but I would have to say Paris
It's easy to make talent when you have african ex-colonies to take players from a huge pool of options. This should be illegal and France should be BANNED from international cups
The city of Paris is quite small and very dense, so there are not a lot of football practices, this is not the case in the Parisian suburbs where you have a lot of space to play football.
There is also a social reason, traditionally parisian people don’t practice much sport, they prefer art and culture, museum and walk around, they are quite posh, instead of the Parisian suburbs inhabitants who are less connected to museum and cultural institutions, therefore they go to sports activities, especially with the quality of football pitches you can find in the region.
If anything it proves Paris’s scouts don’t know what they are doing if they let players from their own backyard (their own region) escape like that by not noticing them in the first place, When clubs not just like Monaco but from other countries like Portugal, Italy and Germany manage to find them first that’s a bad look on PSG. PSG has a massive sporting directive problem that’s for sure, they only have themselves to blame for letting talent slip away like that. They are not the first club to do it (even the best clubs like City, Barca, Juventus, Madrid, Chelsea and etc have let some of their own backyard [region and/or academy] players go recently without knowing what they would end up becoming) but they are definitely a club that has done it on a frequently basis.
Paris region has 12 million people, Portugal has 10 million total population, way better production of great players
You’re comparing a country to a city make it make sense
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Right. I lived in Portugal....but in the end you have to win titles....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's obviously a mixture many factors, but a major one to me is the melting which is Paris the mix of French , North Africans , sub Sahara Africans all contribute to create a very elite football environment.
Remember suburbs of Paris produce also best talents in basketball too
Wembanyama come from the same area.
Black players are the best athletes. In Paris they combine that with the best football education..so why is anyone surprised by the result?
Thats because a lot of englands best players are white or mixed and come from up north rather than london. It doesn't work with everywhere.
Two things help them: running economy and age. There would be more European players if the population were younger
Not necessarily, very racist comment and untrue on many levels. Shockingly ignorant
@@microfarming8583It’s literally a fact that Africans are stronger, faster and get tired less fast. Are more passionate and happier than other races. But they don’t have the culture of football like in the EU or South America. France has the most African colonies, that’s why they have so many Africans growing up in there football culture. It’s kind of cheating compared to the other nations.
because youre not allowed to mention racial differences.
Let’s be honest about the real reason Paris produces so many players, especially compared to London is Poverty. London has similar diverse multiracial population to Paris, the difference is in France it is illegal to monitor race or diversity. This means discrimination in employment and inclusion goes on unchecked. This means the black and ethnic population of France is significantly poorer than the black and ethnic populations of London, so football is seen as the one big way out the ghetto. While in England where they do monitor diversity and inclusion there is more opportunities to earn good money not being an athlete. London has the biggest West African and Caribbean populations outside of these regions but with more opportunities means are more academic black population, so you have Kate Abdo as presenter, lots of Black British Hollywood stars and actors and people in business and finance in England. So football is not seen as the first option to make money like in France. I remember English players Danny Welbeck and Nigel Reo Coker stating they had to beg their African parents to allow them to be professional players because they so against them not continuing their studies. It is literally only in the last 10 years that you see so many English players of African parentage due to this attitude.
You put this very well
@@mikerich3741Yeah the UK has it’s problems, but people forget the England and especially London has the highest average earnings of any black population in Europe, that is why London attracts a lot of black people from Europe, because they believe they will get more opportunity in England than mainland Europe and when your a black French boy growing up in Paris where discrimination isn’t a crime, of course you will play football to get a better life, while in England with a good education that black boy could be in IT, law, actor, medicine, media finance and football is way down the list. that is why Henry family live in England not France because there is more opportunities for people of colour. And many black foreign players stay living in England after they retire because of the opportunity available to their kids.
Said the guy who never set a foot in France ... You dont have a clue what you are talking about..
This is IMO why USA is great at basketball, growing up in Chicago we love Bball and I played all summer as a kid and even though I’m no D1 player… if I go to random countries I bet you most of them would get worked
mavericks in the game will be a thing of the distant past within the next 10 years
But their greatest player came from the most dangerous area in Marseille
Meaning?
@@Obiodum_ He means that Zidane is from Marseille and that's true
Zidane and cantona! And platini henry viera m bappe mahrez kante ben arfa from Paris 😢
@@Obiodum_ most of these Parisians started with a decent childhood and were brought up with a decent education if you wanted to go and visit Zidane’s birthplace you can’t because it’s still THAT dangerous.
Look up "La Castellane" the estate he comes from, proper no go area@@Obiodum_
Might be a bit controversial...im going to say immigration plays a part
You might be right but Paris isn’t the only city with a large immigrant population
It's just the simple truth. Don't apologize even if it bothers some people. Regardless of the multiple explanations for hiding this truth, it is a truth impossible for the rest of the world to ignore. We saw it with Qatar which became Asian champion for the second consecutive time with a majority of players of African origin since it changed its immigration policy. Lol
Not to mention football is mandatory at school and the detection system is very efficient. They groom the best potentials from a very young age.
Fun fact : There is no french players who are from Paris that won the Ballon d’or.
Platini is from near Strasbourg
Zidane is from Marseille
Jean Pierre Papin is from Marseille
Karim Benzema is from Lyon
So it is a little bit biased to say that Paris is the capital of french football talent where the great legends are from Lyon and Marseille…
FRANCE is the best but tell me
How many players over the years come from Ligue 1 over the last 15 years?
Almost all of them start off in Ligue 1 - Mbappe, Kante, Benzema, Tchouaméni, Camavinga, Coman, etc. etc. The French clubs lack the financial power to keep these players so richer foreign clubs farm them for players.
@@ravecrab I’m a Gambling man. I’ve black listed that league, the lack of quality is loud. Some teams can’t string a sequence of 5 passes 😆
@@kissg6734 we can see clearly that you don't really watch football, if you think that about ligue 1
@@kissg6734 lol of course Ligue 1 can’t compete quality wise with the Top 4 Leagues but it is still a very good league. It’s definitely not always fun to watch but it’s perfect for developing young talents that can regularly play and improve quickly. There is a good enough mix of physicality, speed, tactic and technic.
mbappe
Is it France ir really African countries backgrounds!!
I can confirm that Hell has been around a lot longer than this show!
"Sao Paolo" is not written properly. It is "São Paulo".
There are also other regions in Brazil where they play in fields that are not in good shape.