The winger born in 2004 moved from “Béton” to wear the Inter shirt and is now the Primavera’s top scorer with 11 goals. His former coach Frasconi: “he was different from the others”
The most famous intersection in Aulnay-sous-Bois is the one between rue Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir. There is an oval cage that borders a concrete field in terrible condition. Weeds grow between the cracks in the asphalt, the goals without nets have peeling posts and a little further on there are two baskets that are barely standing upright. On June evenings it is impossible to get close, traffic is constantly blocked: there are thousands of people clinging to the fences. The “CAN of the neighborhoods” is being played, an amateur tournament organized by the city’s associations in which local representatives of African countries compete against each other: Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia. In 2019, wearing the orange Ivory Coast shirt, there is also a fifteen-year-old who steals the eye. He has number 11, his name is Issiaka Kamate. He grew up in one of the gray tower blocks around there, that part of Aulnay is nicknamed “Cités des 3000”: a cluster of houses built in the late 1960s to house immigrants who started working at Citroen. The kids in the area spent entire days running on that piece of concrete, known to all as “Béton”. Today Kamate is 19 years old and is Inter Primavera’s top scorer with 11 goals scored. In the 7-0 win over Bologna last weekend, the right winger born in 2004 scored a hat-trick and also provided an assist.