Early Life
Anelka was born in 1979 in Le Chesnay, Yvelines, to parents who had migrated from Martinique in 1974. Thereafter they settled in Trappes, near Paris. His mother is a secretary in the local high school. He has two older brothers Claude and Didier. His brother Claude until 2010 managed a minor league football club in Missouri while his other brother Didier is a high school accounting teacher.
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