Paris Saint-Germain and France national football team star striker Kylian Mbappe (C) is visiting his father's native Cameroon © Daniel BELOUMOU OLOMO / AFP |
France's star footballer Kylian Mbappe arrived in Cameroon to an ecstatic welcome from fans Thursday for a visit that includes charity work with deaf children and a trip to his father's village.
Many among the hundreds who greeted the 24-year-old forward
were dressed in his Paris Saint-Germain team's football jersey for the
occasion.
They wildly shouted out his name as he emerged from the
terminal at the airport in the capital Yaounde, according to an AFP journalist.
A group of about a hundred traditional dancers performed in
his honour. Smiling widely, the footballer saluted from afar the crowd who were
kept at a distance by police, before being whisked away in an SUV with tinted
windows.
Mbappe, who is also captain of France's national team, will
stay during his visit lasting several days at a hotel complex belonging to the
family of French former tennis champion Yannick Noah, who lives in Yaounde.
On Friday, he is due to visit a school for youngsters who
are deaf and hard of hearing in the capital's suburbs, according to his
itinerary seen by AFP.
He is also set to take part in a basketball match, with
expectations it will involve retired NBA player Joakim Noah, the son of
Yannick. Later on, he takes part in a football match against the local team FC
Vent d'Etoudi.
Saturday sees him head south to visit Djebale, his father
Wilfried Mbappe's village. His father left Cameroon at a young age for France
where he became a football trainer.
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