My Story: Moussa Dembélé French professional footballer
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 My name is Moussa Dembele.
00:15 This is my story.
00:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:19 Yeah, it was good.
00:21 I started playing football with my brother at the age of four.
00:25 We were pretty much street with friends.
00:27 And then I just got into it.
00:28 And there was a small club in my hometown.
00:30 And then I just started to train with them.
00:33 And that's all I do now.
00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:38 I've done football on the street.
00:41 So for me, it's a pleasure to be where I am today.
00:45 I started playing for a team called Louis-Serge.
00:49 It was my hometown team.
00:51 And yeah, it was good to play with them.
00:53 First and foremost, when my brother
00:56 wanted to join this team, they didn't want me.
00:59 Because they said there are too much players to take care of
01:04 and stuff.
01:04 And my brother, he insisted.
01:06 And he said, just give him one training session.
01:09 And I trained with them.
01:10 I was five at the time--
01:12 five, no, six.
01:13 Five or six at the time.
01:14 And I had one training session with them.
01:16 And then since that, they just took me.
01:18 And then I played there two years.
01:20 And afterwards, everyone left.
01:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:26 Yeah, when I signed with PSG, it was a big change--
01:29 a big change for me.
01:30 Because you're in a professional team.
01:32 And then you see everyone is wearing the same kit.
01:35 And you go away on tournaments and play
01:38 against other professional teams.
01:40 And it was a massive change for me.
01:42 But I enjoyed it.
01:43 And it was a good period of my young career, I would say.
01:48 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:51 Move to Fulham was a tough decision to take for me,
01:53 I think, as a young man and a young player
01:55 and a young person as well.
01:56 It's hard to go away from your friends and your family
01:59 to work.
02:01 But for me, it was a thing to do--
02:05 to go away from your family and friends
02:08 to try to achieve your dreams.
02:10 And yeah, at the beginning, it was tough.
02:13 Because you come to a country where you've never been.
02:15 And you see people that you don't see that often.
02:19 And they speak a different language and stuff.
02:22 But I quickly get onto it.
02:24 And I start to learn the language very quick.
02:26 And yeah, it was a good--
02:28 I had a good time there.
02:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:33 My move to Celtic was a year ago.
02:36 It's been good so far.
02:38 We've achieved a lot, I think.
02:40 We played Champions League.
02:41 And we've won the Derby.
02:46 And obviously, we've won the league and the cup--
02:49 and the two cups.
02:50 I think it was a great season for me last year.
02:53 I was top scorer in a team who were very good players.
02:57 And obviously, I start to play Champions League.
03:00 And I experience it.
03:02 And I see what I have to do to be up there
03:05 and compete with the best.
03:07 And I think that the move to Celtic, for me,
03:09 has been just great.
03:11 And I think there's many, many more good seasons
03:13 like this to come for me.
03:14 I want to be one of the best strikers in the world.
03:16 I don't want to be one striker to be compared with another one.
03:19 I just want to be me and make a name for myself
03:24 and be the best.
03:25 Simple.
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