During this gathering of national teams, Leicester City has two players joining the national team for the first time.
This is the fourth season of the midfielder with the strange name Drinkwater (Vietnamese translation: drink water).
Kante brought a clear change in quality between Leicester this season and last season.
On this day a year ago, Leicester were ranked at the bottom of the table, with hopes of relegation still very vague.
In the race for the title of best player in the Premier League this season, Kante is of course difficult to compare with teammate Mahrez.
Mahrez is the one who makes others jump out of their seats.
Statistics show that no player in the Premier League has had as many duels as Kante (120), nor has anyone tackled the ball as successfully as him (93).
Coach Ranieri has a rather strange way of reminding his students to concentrate more.
In recent days, transfer information has linked Kante to Real Madrid.
Kante (right) caught the eye of Real Madrid in the summer of 2014, but because of President Perez’s mistake, they missed the opportunity to recruit this raw gem.
That’s because in 2014, Real almost signed Kante.
Kante stayed at Caen for another year and joined Leicester at the beginning of this season for seven million dollars.
As for Real, after rejecting Kante two years ago, they are still struggling with the midfield problem.
At that time, Makelele was the most important figure in the Real team, but his income was among the `poorest` in the team.
Perez did not expect that the sale of Makelele would mean the death of the `Galactico` policy, because his expensive stars had no one to protect them.
Kante is reminiscent of the effective image of Claude Mekelele (No. 24) in the Real Madrid shirt.
Ten years after selling Makelele, Perez seems to have made the next mistake when rejecting the appearance of a `new Makelele`, Kante.
If Leicester wins the next matches, they cannot lack goals from Mahrez, Jamie Vardy or Shinji Okazaki.
As Gary Lineker said: `Vardy and Mahrez helped Leicester win the match, and Kante helped them win a mythical campaign.`
Naomi