Claude Makélélé has today completed a move from Chelsea to Paris Saint German. While Makélélé is famous as a French international, he was actually born in Kinshasa, during the reign of Mobutu.Last year he talked to The Independent about his father's experience in what was then Zaire.
"My father came from Zaire to play football but the problem was he was quite old, 26," Makelele says. "It was because of President Mobutu, he wouldn't let any of the national team players in Zaire leave. My father's nickname was 'Soucousse' [it means a dance or shimmy]. He played in the No 10 role, behind the strikers but he had to stop because he was living in a different country and my mother wanted him to be with us."
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