Two friends, one of whom will celebrate for the first time the Champions League title

The Champions League final that brings Manchester City and Chelsea on May 29 will witness a special confrontation between the two friends, the Algerian Riyad Mahrez and the French N'Golo Kante, as each seeks to win the continental title for the first time in their history.

Mahrez has a special friendship with Kante, especially as the starting point for each of them to the world of stardom came when they played together in the English ranks of Leicester City, when they contributed to the historic victory of the "Foxes" in the English Premier League in 2016 for the first time in the history of the club.

Although Kante and Mahrez won the league title again with Chelsea and Manchester City, and the French star won the World Cup 2018 with the "Roosters", while Mahrez led Algeria to win the 2019 African Nations Cup, but the European Champions League is the title that Each of them dreams of winning it.

The Algerian star presents an exceptional season with Manchester City, as Mahrez came close to winning the English Premier League title for the third time in his history after winning the title twice, once with Leicester City and the second time with “City”. Mahrez also played the championship role in the Champions League semi-finals, by winning The goal of winning against Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg, to end the match with the victory of City with two goals to one, before the Algerian star repeated his brilliance in the second leg by scoring two goals.

On the other hand, the situation is no different for N'Golo Kante, who is the most prominent trump card for German coach Thomas Tuchel, as the French midfielder won the title of best player in the match between Chelsea and Real Madrid in the semi-finals and Tuchel relies a lot on Kante in the face of the strong attack from Manchester City.

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