Three younger siblings – two sisters and one brother – followed Ousmane but when his Malian father, Ousmane Sr, left the family home, Fatimata was forced to bring up her children alone. “She is the pivot of the family and always believed her son would be star,” says Camara, who first met Dembélé in 2012. “Fatimata would accompany Ousmane to training every day as well as raising the children alone by doing odd jobs to support them all. “Dembélé is a kid of 20 years who has just landed on an unknown planet,” wrote Albert Masnou in Sport. “Ousmane has always dreamed of playing for Barça and now the dream has come true,” he says.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2017 07:52 UTC