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Hometown hero - Meet Barcelona target and NxGn starlet Malang Sarr

The teenage defender made Goal's prestigious list of the best young players in the world and has attracted attention from Europe's biggest clubs

It was a boiling hot August day in 2016 when a hitherto unheralded 17-year-old leapt unmarked to head a Jean-Michael Seri free kick into the net. His textbook downward header was to be the only goal of the game as Lucien Favre’s reign at Nice got off to a winning start against Rennes.

It was fitting, too, that it was an academy graduate who got the goal - all the more so given that he was born and brought up in Nice.