DUESSELDORF, Germany — It was a classic N'Golo Kanté performance. Effective, understated — and overshadowed by a teammate. With all the attention on Kylian Mbappé and his injured nose, Kanté's ...

Kante is one of France's more reserved characters but he was thrust into the spotlight by his team-mates who sang a song dedicated to him, before getting thousands of fans to join in....read full ...

On Sundays in a gymnasium in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb west of Paris, Mehdi Salem used to play indoor street football tournaments with the local neighbourhood teams. He recalls one 14-year-old, ...

The midfielder is part of a star-studded 25-man roster named by Les Bleus boss Didier Deschamps, headed by captain and talisman Kylian Mbappe. Kante was part of the France side which won the 2018 ...