How people, policy and the shortcomings of the city's premier club have helped Paris export players in a quantity and quality unmatched anywhere in the world.
Georges Kevin Nkoudou, Warren Zaire-Emery, Kylian Mbappe and Sofiane Boufal are all products of the most prolific football talent hotbed in the worldHe is back in Pantin, just outside the north-east corner of the peripherique - the ring road that separates central Paris from its suburbs.
Traore, now 35, played more than 250 games for four different clubs in Germany's Bundesliga and captained Guinea at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. There were 11 Parisians in the France squad that lost to Argentina in the final, with the other 19 spread across eight national teams: Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Portugal, Germany and Qatar.
"You have a lot of people from North Africa round here; we used to say they are the real street footballers," he adds. A local government policy of building high-quality football facilities in every Paris banlieue, partly to keep kids off the streets and out of trouble, has been fundamental to making the sport cheap and accessible to all.
"This is not an easy place to live. Many families are in difficulty. The children know it and give their all to succeed. It builds a mentality and that perhaps makes the difference, in addition to talent."Sebastien Bassong, the former Tottenham, Newcastle and Cameroon defender, began his passage to football stardom at Deuil Enghein, a club located in Val d'Oise, directly to the north of Paris. He says football is "in the DNA" of those who grow up in the banlieues.
Bassong, pictured as a child, represented France's Under-21 side before playing for Cameroon at senior level "Most of the France national youth teams are full of our players. So our regional teams are playing at national level. Scouts from all over the world come to Ile-de-France to look at players in our leagues."
Kylian Mbappe, left, was born and raised in Paris, like Warren Zaire-Emery but only arrived at the Parc des Princes via a £166m transfer from Monaco
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