January 7, 2025
Published by
Peter Holm

The story of Samy Mahour. The story of the underrated.

"..I've been told it is impossible to sign for an academy. They told me I'm 16 years old, it's too late ...But it's never finished"

March, 2020 - 16 year old Samy was playing amateur youth football for Montrouge in the Paris districts. On the Tonsser app he applied for a trial with Belgian club KAA Gent and based on his profile and performances he was invited to Belgium.

Over two trials he impressed the club who signed him on a full time professional contract in June 2020. He debuted in a friendly in august with a goal and an assist. Forbes and the great Robert Kidd captured the story.

Today, the story gets even better as Samy has been called up Algeria U20 national team.We followed Samy as he travelled to Belgium for the chance he had been waiting for. It turned into this 13 min documentary:

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