A product of the French football eco-system unwanted by NSC, NFDP


THE stupendous volley by France talisman Kylian Mbappe which dragged the FIFA World Cup final into extra-time on Sunday was initiated by two players who once came under Saad Ichalalene’s tutelage.

Ichalalene, for the uninitated, spent six years in Malaysia as a football expert at the grassroot level. But the-35-year-old youth coach is bidding farewell to a place he had called home.

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