Ahead of Chelsea's top of the table WSL meeting with Manchester City, Jo Currie travelled to Cobham to sit down with manager Sonia Bompastor and summer signing, Mevline Malard.
Malard grew up on Reunion, a small island east of Madagascar. At 14-years-old, she caught the eye of Sonia Bompastor, who was in charge of Lyon's academy at the time. Bompastor persuaded Malard's mother to allow her daughter to move more than 5,600 miles to Lyon where years later, they went on to win the Champions League together.
Fast forward to the summer of 2026 and they are reunited again at Chelsea and chat to Jo about their first memories of each other, their experiences of moving to England and Saturday's huge game at Stamford Bridge.
