A picture of Sonia Bompastor and Melvine Malard from 2014Image source, Melvine Malard / Chelsea FC
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Sonia Bompastor was working as Lyon's head of youth development when Melvine Malard played at Clairfontaine

ByAdam Millington, BBC Sport journalist and Jo Currie, Women’s sport reporter
  • Published9 minutes ago

Thousands of miles from home, a 14-year-old had an encounter that would change her life.

Nestled in a forest about an hour from Paris is France's national football academy at Clairefontaine. Famous for developing global stars such as Kylian Mbappe and Thierry Henry, it is also where a teenage Melvine Malard first met Sonia Bompastor in 2014.