Sibling rivals line up for different teams at World Cup

Four sets of brothers will compete at the World Cup, all for different countries in a reflection ​of how steady migration around the world has had an impact on football.

Desire Doue and his older brother Guela are ‌French-born, but while Paris St Germain starlet Desire plays for Les Bleus, Guela is an overlapping fullback for the Ivory Coast from where their father hails.

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