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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
Sport
Richard Forrester

Modest Massengo brings his past to the present amid uncertainty over Bristol City future

Han-Noah Massengo stands on the sidelines of the astroturf at Bridge Learning Campus in south Bristol watching the next generation of L'esperance Aulneysienne talent playing in a football match with local teenagers. .

The Bristol City midfielder, 21, paid the costs to fly former coaches and youth players aged 12 to 13 from his boyhood side on the outskirts of Paris to Bristol so the children can experience a new country and culture - some of who would never get that opportunity.

Playing in their traditional green, the young players are put through their training drills before taking to the field, spraying the ball around the pitch as their coach continues to give them instructions from the sidelines.

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