The Full Story of a Football Genius best known by the Nickname; The Rat. Our N'Golo Kante Childhood story plus untold biography facts bring to you full account of notable events from his childhood time till date. Analyses involve N’Golo Kante’s personal. Lives story before fame, family life and many little-known facts about him.
Yes, everyone knows about his tackling abilities but only a few fans consider N’Golo Kante ’s biography story which is quite interesting. Now without further about him.
EARLY LIFE:
N’Golo Kante was born on March 29, 1991, Paris, France by relatively unknown parents known as Late Mr. and Mrs. Kante. His parents were migrants who migrated to France from Mali in 1980 to seek greener pasture in Europe. Due to their resilience nature, they thrived in doing the most complicated job that came their way. N’Golo Kante was their first child.
Kante grew up in a small flat in Rueil Malmaison, a small and densely populated suburban area to Paris. This was an area known to have the best of people going menial jobs for the big city.
Ideally, Kante worked as a trash picker during his childhood. As a trash picker & grabber, he would walk for kilometers around the suburbs of eastern Paris looking for all sort of valuable waste to collect and deliver to small recycling firms for quick cash. Even while he juggled through this, Kante remained a lad with a troubled personal life before fame.
He knew his job will continually make his family circle in poverty. Kante had the ultimate dream. A dream for any prestigious role or responsibility that would pave way for a poverty-free life for his family.
After the France 98 world cup, Kante saw a different France. A France of opportunities. He saw a country whose football glory came mostly from migrants. Back then as a 7 years old boy who got used to menial jobs around Paris around suburbs, Kante already used to seeing and hearing big names of the FIFA 1998 world cup.
The likes of Thierry Henry, Zinedane Zidane, Patrick Viera, Lilian Thuram and Nicolas Anelka were known to be household names to migrants who grazed the tournament. Their world cup victory brought about a turning point in terms of Migrant’s participation in French football.
Kante made more monies picking trashes dropped by the public. He covered ground used by the tournament in Paris. His parents, have to see their son progressed so much, assisted him financially to start his future plans.
Although Kante never watched a football match but aspired to take football as a career
A NEW LIFE:
At age 8 Kante made the biggest decision of his life. The quest to start playing football from grassroots. He began his career at JS Suresnes in the western suburbs of Paris. Upon registration, Kante was immediately tagged by teammates as the smallest and most focused young star in the club. His small stature appearance kept many of his teammates wondering if he could last for 90minutes on the pitch.
Ideally, it was Kante’s humility and hard work learn in his troubled youth that helped the miniature midfielder achieve greatness.
His team starts winning trophies as soon as he entered the club. Kante would lead his team winning trophies but would celebrate because it meant nothing to him. He doesn’t allow celebration go to his head. As seen in the picture below, he distances himself from a trophy celebration which came to the team because he was their main man.
More so, even while his team grows in height, Kante remained stuck in height but remained the most powerful (small but mighty) midfield force who would cover every blade of grass in the field. When he poses for team photos, his size looks similar to the visiting little kid staring at him in the picture below.
N’Golo Kante began growing after spending about 4 years at the club. His personality and career path became obvious after spending such years. At some point in time, Kante’s popularity took him to be the club’s favorite and most faithful servant. He earned extra monies by joining a team of selected youth stars who took extra hours to train very young kids. All thanks to his then assistant manager Pierre Ville who to earn more after the death of his father (Mr. Kante).
According to Kante’s assistant manager Pierre Ville, “Kante remained outside the radar of big teams because of his small stature appearance. Back then, he would perform tackles all day, take the ball from one end of the pitch and would carry it to the other length of the field. That was his private training routine taught by no one.”
Another of his old pals, Fancois Lemoine, added: “We were Under-19s and was Under-15s and he was already playing with us. We were playing against a local team and he came on ten minutes from the end. He was smaller than everyone yet no one could get past him. At the end of the match we went into the changing room I looked at one of my teammates and I said’. It was a real lesson in humility.”
Back then, Kante was the one player who listens and does absolutely everything asked of him. Literally, everything. Vojtyna his youth coach once said “I once joked with Kante before a holiday. I told N’Golo, I’m giving you two month to juggles the ball 50times with your left foot, 50 with your foot and 50 with your head.” “Two months later, he did it! I was shocked. From this moment, I never told him what to do. I left him for nature to decide his case” Kante was given a free role. His reputation at some point got fans flocking to the park pitches just to watch him play.
This led to a move to Boulogne where he played between 2010-2012. His Boulogne Durand one said: “His anticipation was great, he played direct, box-to-box and the distance he covered was there for all to see.”
His dream to pursue his dream in English finally came. Kante was scouted for Premier League club Leicester City by Steve Walsh, who had previously facilitated the transfers of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez to the team. On 3 August 2015, he joined Leicester on a four-year contract, for an undisclosed fee reported to be 8 million pounds. The rest, as they say, is history.
FAMILY LIFE:
N’Golo Kante comes from a big family (late father, mother and 4 children). He is the first child of four brother and sisters. His dad died when N’Golo was 11 so from very early on there was a sense of responsibility.
He knew the value of working hard because that’s the only way he used to achieve something in life. He was able to take care of every member of his family. Fixing his younger sisters at the football youth system at Suresnes, western suburbs of Paris and providing financial assistance to his brother.
HIS ROLE MODEL:
After his first senior goal, French region newspaper La Voix du Nord likened Kante to Claude Makelele in his early days at Nantes, due to their similar playing style and role in midfield. After asking the player if he considered Makelele his role model, Kante response was negative.
N’Golo Kante picked Lassana Diarra instead of Makelele as a role model. Makelele responded that... “Kante should focus on striving more to become an exceptional player on leadership basis and not only on his energy and excellent ball-winning abilities.”
LIFESTYLE:
N'Golo Kante has never had a flashy car or expensive clothes. At the start of his professional career at Chelsea, he commuted to training by kick scooter. As of 2017/2018 season, he drove a Mini Cooper.
According to BBC Sport’s reporter, Paul Fetcher... “Kante is uninterested in displaying his wealth.” He just sticks to his car despite receiving 120,000 ounces per week.
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