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On the 18th May 2012, the day before Chelsea won their first Champions League title, N'golo Kante made his debut for US Boulogne as a 21 year old as the club, based in the North of France, were relegated from Ligue 2.

From that disappointing start Kante’s rise has been nothing short of miraculous, as he earned a move first to Caen, then Leicester City and finally Chelsea, winning two Premier League titles, an FA Cup, the Europa League and most recently the Champions League. Not only that but after finally establishing himself at international level with France in 2016, he helped Les Bleus to the Final of the Euros that summer and won his nation’s 2nd ever World Cup two years later.

For a player deemed not good enough by a host of clubs and Clairefontaine, the French national youth academy, Kante has managed to become one of the defining players of his generation, whilst his shy, humble and lowkey nature, summed up by playing FIFA and watching Match of the Day with complete strangers in Kings Cross in 2018, has won him legions of fans worldwide.

But who is N’golo Kante and what makes him so special? Today on FD Explains we aim to find out…


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