Moussa Dembele - My First Club Didn't Want Me - video Dailymotion

My Story: Moussa Dembélé French professional footballer

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00:00My name is Moussa Dembele, this is my story.

00:16Yeah it was good, I started playing football with my brother at the age of four, you know

00:25we were pretty much street friends and then I just got into it and there was a small club

00:30in my hometown and I just started to train with them and that's how I've been around.

00:40I've done football on the street so for me it's a pleasure to be where I am today.

00:45I started playing for a team called L'USRG, it was my hometown team and yeah it was good

00:51to play with them.

00:52First and foremost when me and my brother wanted to join this team they didn't want

00:58me because they said there are too much players to take care of and stuff and my brother like

01:05he insisted and he said like just give him one training session and I trained with them

01:10I was five at the time, no six, five or six at the time and I had one training session

01:15with them and then since that you know they just took me and then I played there two years

01:20and afterwards everyone knows me.

01:26Yeah when I signed with PSG it was a big change, a big change for me because you know you're

01:31in a professional team and then you see everyone is wearing the same kit and you know you go

01:36away on tournaments and play against other professional teams and you know it was a massive

01:42change for me but you know I enjoyed it and it was a good period of my young career I would say.

01:51Move to Fulham was a tough decision to take for me I think you know as a young man and

01:55a young player and a young person as well you know it's hard to go away from your friends

01:58and your family you know to work but you know for me it was a thing to do you know to go

02:05away from your family and friends you know to try to achieve your dreams and yeah at

02:11the beginning you know it was tough because you know you come to a country where you've

02:15never been and you see people that you know you don't see them often and they speak a

02:20different language and stuff but you know I quickly get on to it and I start to learn

02:25the language very quick and yeah I had a good time there.

02:33My move to Celtic you know was a year ago, it's been good so far you know we've achieved

02:39a lot I think you know we've played Champions League and we've won the Derby and obviously

02:46we've won the League and the Cup and the two Cups I think it was a great season for me

02:52last year you know I was top scorer and the team were very good players and obviously

02:58like I start to play Champions League and you know I experience it and I see what I

03:03have to do to be up there and compete with the best and I think the move to Celtic for

03:09me has been just great you know and I think there's many many more good seasons like this

03:13to come for me.

03:14I want to be one of the best strikers in the world, I don't want to be like one striker

03:18to be compared with another one I just want to be me and make a name for myself and be

03:25the best, it's simple.