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Born on August 16, 1989 in Blanc-Mesnil, Moussa spent his entire childhood in Aulnay-sous-Bois before leaving for the Toulouse training centre at the age of 13. He went through the Red Star youth team and signed hisfirst professional contract at the age of 17 and played hisfirst match on August 3rd 2007 against Valenciennes.
He spent 6 years with TFC, playing 220 games, before moving to the north of England to join the Magpies of Newcastle.
Moussa will definitively confirm his status as a powerful and fast midfielder thanks to the English league which offers him the space and intensity to express all his qualities. This confirmation will allow him to play hisfirst international competition with Les Bleus during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
In 2016, after a very high level performance with the French team during the Euro, where he was the strong man in the final lost 1-0 to Portugal, he left Newcatsle to join Tottenham HotSpur in London, where he played in the Champions League final against Liverpool.
Since the beginning of his career, Moussa has played no less than 570 games for the French national team and for his club. He is currently one of the 5 most capped players in the game.
But Moussa is not just a well-known and respected professional footballer. He is also a very committed sportsman as he has been the patron of the Fondation des Aéroports de Paris since 2015 and the patron of Sport dans la Ville since 2017. In addition, he has been a supporter of the Abbé Pierre Foundation since 2020.
To date, his fame and image make him the 7th most popular French sportsman according to a ranking established by the social network Twitter. Moussa has chosen to use his fame and time to serve Sport dans la ville.
He is also known for a singular passion in soccer: that of being an avid fan of The Young and the Restless.
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Born on 18 January 1977 in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, Didier arrived in Dijon at the age of 16 and signed hisfirst professional contract with the club two years later. 3 years later, he joined the flagship club of French handball, Montpellier handball. During 7 years, Didier won 1 Champions League, 6 French Championship titles, 5 French Cups. In the summer of 2003, he joined the Spanish club Ciuadad Real/Athlético de Madrid for 9 years. He will reach the European summits of handball with 3 Champions League, 3 European Supercup, 2 Club World Cup, 5 Spanish Championship titles, 3 King's Cup, 6 ASOBAL Cup, 4 Spanish Supercup. That's all!
But Didier is not just a top club player. With 379 caps for the French national team, he was for 17 years one of the great architects of Les Bleus' international success. From the experts to the strongmen, he remains "Le ROC", "La Montagne".
In 2019, he was voted by international bodies as the best defender in the world for the last 20 years.
During his playing career with Les Bleus, he won 12 major titles, including two Olympic gold medals, three World Championship titles and two European Nations Championship titles.
He will end his handball career with PSG Handball as captain and French Champion in 2013.
But for Didier, there was no time for a well-deserved and restful retirement. He became assistant coach of the French national team and then in 2016, he was appointed coach of Les Bleus.
He led Les Bleus to the 2017 World Cup in France.
Didier Dinart remains THE reference in world handball for the defence sector. It is thanks to his inventiveness and intelligence that the perception of defence will literally evolve to become a major strategic issue.
Ambassador of Sport dans la ville, Didier will put his knowledge of team management at the service of the young people of the Association.
Born on 9 January 1997, Issa is a pure product of the Toulouse Football Club training centre. He played hisfirst professional match at the age of 18 against OGC Nice on 28 November 2015.
During this period in Toulouse, Issa took his baccalaureate and passed his exams in the middle of the professional sports season.
Issa spent three wonderful seasons with TFC, becoming captain of his team at the age of 20 and helping to save the club from relegation to Ligue 2.
After this period, Issa left for West Ham United, becoming Toulouse's record transfer, selling him at the age of 21 for €25m.
But Issa is not only a powerful central defender at club level, as he has 36 caps for the French youth team, including a European Championship title with the Espoirs in 2016 alongside 2018 World Champions Ousmane DEMBELE and Kylian MBAPPE.
Since March 2020, Issa has chosen to be an Ambassador for Sport dans la Ville and to participate in the development of the Association.
Born on 15 December 1988, Steven has a long career behind him and has the distinction of having played in several countries.
Trained at CA Lisieux and Amiens SC, a club with which he became a professional footballer at the age of 19 and played hisfirst professional match against FC Libourne.
In July 2009 and after 2 seasons at Amiens SC, Steven will fly to England for Blackburns Rovers where for 3 seasons, he will confirm his immense potential as an intelligent and powerful defensive midfielder. In 2013, he joined Stoke City for 3 seasons where his status as a safe midfielder will be confirmed.
6 years in the English Championship made him a coveted player and he chose to leave for FC Sevilla. His time in Spain will be crowned with success with a Europa League title in 2016. It was during this period that Steven began to discover the French senior team.
After the 2018 World Cup in Russia, which made him World Champion, he left for Italy and AS Roma. In the summer of 2019, he joined Istanbul and the leading club of Turkey, Galatasaray SK. But the adventure will last only 6 months and in January 2020, Stade Rennais FC signs him until July 2021.
Polyglot, sensitive to the success of young people, Steven will bring to Sport dans la Ville all his experience of professional mobility and the discipline necessary for the success of a project.