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Marcel Desailly is one of the best European Footballers of all time.
 
He played a record 116 times for the French National Team. He captained the side to its first (1st) World Cup Victory in 1998, topped it with the European Championship two (2) years later, and the Confederations Cup in 2001 and 2002.
 
He also won the European Championships in Consecutive years with Marseille and AC Milan before joining Chelsea, where he won the FA Cup.
 
Desailly was born in Accra to Ghanaian parents in 1968 & Christened Emmanuel Odenke Addy. He was adopted by a French Diplomat at age 4. Now, after three and half decades as a franchman, he is involved in projects which he prefers to keep private.
 
Marcal Desailly, UNICEF Ambassador, Laureat of the Sports Academy, and a gentleman is my guest.