N'Golo Kanté (born 29 March 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays for English club Leicester City and the France national team, as a central midfielder.

He made his senior debut at Boulogne and then spent two seasons at Caen, the latter in Ligue 1. In 2015, he signed for Leicester City for a fee of €8 million, winning the Premier League in his first season. Kanté made his senior international debut for France in 2016, and was included in their squad for that year's European Championship.

N'Golo Kante is by far the best player in the Premier League this season.” So said Sir Alex Ferguson when discussing a Leicester team he thinks will win the league comfortably. It's not hard to see why he holds the Frenchman in such high regard either.
Kante is a Ferguson kind of player. He might not score 30-yard screamers or be in any danger of setting Premier League assist records, but he works very hard. Tirelessly, in fact. Kante is the heartbeat of this Leicester City team and the relentless, Duracel-powered shifts he's put in all season have epitomised the spirit of his side's rise to the top of the table.
Kante was recommended by Steve Walsh (the Leicester scout who discovered Riyad Mahrez) because of his remarkable defensive statistics in France.

Joining Caen in the French second division in 2013, Kante became part of a team which finished third in his first season, earning promotion to Ligue 1. They unexpectedly retained their top flight status the next.

In that second season Kante recorded an impressive average of 4.8 tackles per game and 2.9 interceptions, cutting out opposition attacks more than any other player in France. He's actually improved since moving to England and has an average of 4.2 interceptions per match in the Premier League, second only to Idrissa Gueye at Aston Villa.
This season, as Leicester City close in on one of the greatest sporting achievements in the history of earth, Kante has been at the very centre of Claudio Ranieri's gameplan.

Leicester sit deep and invite teams on to them before launching forward at high speed, exploiting space left behind the defence by an unsuspecting opposition. The key to the system is winning the ball before attacking players have the chance to do anything with it. This is exactly where Kante thrives.
Alex Ferguson’s high regard for Kante makes sense. One of his best ever players, Roy Keane, had a talent for buzzing around opposition players, chasing them all over the pitch and giving them little to no time to think about their next move.  When in possession, he was excellent at turning defence into attack.