@mauricio.morenoIbrahima Konate has opened up about his difficult early years. Growing up in the suburbs of Paris, his family could not afford to buy him football boots. He would wear the worn out screw in studs that older kids in the neighborhood had already used until the soles melted. He explained how he developed his defensive reflexes and his physique while trying to keep his balance on concrete pitches so that he would not slip in those damaged boots.

@mauricio.morenoIbrahima Konate has opened up about his difficult early years. Growing up in the suburbs of Paris, his family could not afford to buy him football boots. He would wear the worn out screw in studs that older kids in the neighborhood had already used until the soles melted. He explained how he developed his defensive reflexes and his physique while trying to keep his balance on concrete pitches so that he would not slip in those damaged boots.