They are no less than 37 French players to populate the Bundesliga. An astronomical figure which makes it the main foreign nationality of the German championship, ahead of the 25 Austrians. Among them, there is Manu Koné. Revelation of Toulouse FC, the midfielder with seven selections for the France U19 team was recruited for € 9 million last summer, at just 20 years old. Born in Hauts-de-Seine in Colombes (“
I am from Villeneuve-la-Garenne, even though I was born in Colombes
”), he started his team's last 11 matches in the Bundesliga. Proof of a talent that does not wait. And the complicated season for Gladbach, 14th in the standings, does not tarnish neither his performances, nor his lucidity on the critics ("
my nonchalance, it is a force
").
And even less his happiness to evolve in German football, different from that in France.
To discover
Bundesliga fixtures and results
Bundesliga standings
On Friday, you face Bayern Munich for the first time since
your 5-0 German Cup victory on October 27
.
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