Mahrez is a football star in the making and currently plays for English club Leicester City. Born in Sarcelles, France to an Algerian father and a mother of Algerian and Moroccan descent, he has been nominated for the Ballon d’Or award and won the BBC African Footballer of the Year award in December 2016.
Though he inked a new four-year contract with Leicester in August 2016, Mahrez has now expressed his desire to leave the club at the end of the soccer season. Media reports suggest Arsenal is interested in signing him on, a rare feat for a foreigner.
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