The history of Juventus’ French striker starts from below, like those of many guys protagonists of Like a Pro, the project dedicated to those who dream of becoming a professional footballer
To find the origins of the football of Randal Kolo Muani you must cross a overflow of a French highway and go up to Villepinte, a town located almost 30 kilometers north of Paris. There you grow between street and school football, between backpacks to act as doors and real green rectangles that teleport you with the imagination at the Parco dei Principi. It is played barefoot and with shoes, related related, but also tactics. Above all, passion. There Kolo Muani was born there. His story recalls one of Us: the new project for those who start from the bottom with the aim of becoming a professional footballer.
origins
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Georges Pollet is the first stage where a very young Kolo Muani scored his first storage. At Villepinte Football Club, a team affiliated to Valenciennes, Serge Aurier, ADIL Aouchiche – French talent of 2002, today in force at Sunderland – and also the 2006 world finalist Alou Diarra have also passed. In short, the Les Arcades neighborhood is the land of future champions, where talent is weaned and expectations are created. At Kolo Muani at home football has always been on the agenda, one of those passions shared in the family where Sunday was an appointment on the sofa, tuned to follow the PSG matches. Born in 1998, the first dribbling randal made them on the back of the elementary and maternal school Marie Laurencin, where a pitch between houses and popular buildings stands. The afternoon meeting point for all children united by the dream of becoming future champions.
The auditions: Cremonese and Vicenza
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Born in Bondy to a family of Congolese origin, Kolo Muani continued his career escalation in the youth sectors of Tremblay, Torcy and Nantes, also coming to do two auditions with Vicenza and Cremonese, not being registered. Who knows, in another life he could have played the scorer ranking with Pio Esposito, Iemello and Laurientè. Or maybe it could be the spearhead of a Vicenza chasing Padua for promotion to Serie B. It went better. At Nantes explodes, especially in the 2021-22 season where he scores 12 goals and provides 5 assists in 36 Ligue 1 games, also winning the French Cup in the final against Nice. The consecration arrives the year following the Ointracht, season 2022-23: 23 goals and 17 assists among all the competitions that take him to the end of the year on the list of candidates for the Golden Ball, ending 28 °.
PSG flop
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In Paris Kolo Muani suffered the pressure. That of playing for the shirt he has always cheered, that of having to demonstrate that he is a player of 90 million euros, that of knowing how to be in a locker room that had just lost Neymar and he himself had been chosen as the ideal substitute. Luis Enrique immediately trusts him, making him play owner in all the games of the Champions League group. As a left wing, however, Kolo Muani does not convince. The Spanish technician launches Barcola and from there he no longer takes him away, for Randal the future is on the bench. The dialogues with Mbappé served little, the agreement on the field was not the best. A year and a half later, with 11 goals and 7 assists behind him, Kolo Muani found the same light -heartedness of when he played on the street in Villepinte, a small happy oasis in which to have fun just a ball and a smile, what Randal has to have fun, what Randal has fished in just three games in Turin.
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