INTERVIEW – Product of Toulouse FC, midfielder Manu Koné, holder in Mönchengladbach, faces great Bayern Munich this Friday. Two months after his goal in a historic 5-0 victory over the German ogre …
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 the Hauts-de-Seine in Colombes (“I am from Villeneuve-la-Garenne, even though I was born in Colombes”), He has started his side’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 mar either his performances or his lucidity on the critics (“my nonchalance is a strength“). And even less his happiness to evolve in German football, different from that in France.
On Friday you face Bayern Munich for the first time since your 5-0 victory in the German Cup on October 27 . You are favorites, aren’t you? …
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