In an era of famous faces seeing their offspring follow in illustrious footsteps, World Cup-winning genes have rubbed off on an exciting Ligue 1 star
Lilian Thuram was a lot of things: one of the finest right-backs of all-time, France’s most-capped player, an activist off the field and a World Cup winner on it.
What he was not - and he would be the first to admit this – was a fleet-footed, direct runner who felt entirely comfortable with the ball between his feet bursting at opposition defences.
Yes, he was capable of cutting inside from the flank and producing the odd spectacular strike (see World Cup semi-final versus Croatia in 1998), but that was not what his game was about.