Desert Fox Riyad Mehrez Started Career In Sarcelles, Becomes An English Fox

Just a few days after the Algerian international and LCFC’s attacker, Riad Mehrez, was crowned PFA Player of the year 2016 in the U.K, he becomes the first African and Arab player whose name written among the list of the stars who wrote their name with golden letters in England.

Mehrez writes history with his team Leicester City, which won its first title in the English Premier League since it was created in 1884, after the gift by Chelsea, which turned the table on Tottenham in a crazy game on Monday night, and held a 2-2 draw, giving the title directly to the club of foxes, noting that the difference in points between the team of the coach Claudio Ranieri and the fellows of Harry Kane are seven points, and it remained only two rounds of the season.

Mehrez is the first Algerian and Arab player to win the title of the most exciting championship in the world, especially since Leicester city’s award was surprising and it will allow it to reach a top ranking to participate in a European league next year, especially in light of the presence of Chelsea and Tottenham, and the poles of the cities of Manchester, Arsenal and Liverpool, which spend large sums of money to attract the best names.

Football season 2014/2015 was the first for Mehrez with his team-mates in the Premier League, who guaranteed to stay with great difficulty, after they had only 41 points, being away from the first clubs which left the Premier League with six points, but in the next season, the most optimist fans were not betting on the Leicester club to win the league, but the dream was realized with a team which budget is among the weakest in the old continent, and the clubs owner bet on strong players who become international stars.

Mehrez was not graduated from important football schools, and his career was only playing in small clubs. He grew up in Sarcelles neighbourhood on the outskirts of the French capital, Paris, where crimes and dangerous events, before playing for Le Havre in the second division and then reached the English Premier League with Leicester in two seasons and becomes a European star.

Desert Fox’s talent was discovered by his father, who watched every big and small details, but did not live to see the success of his son, because he died when Riyad was 15, but the warrior continued to show good performance every time he remembered his father’s advice, until he reached stardom.