Get the biggest City transfer window stories, analysis and updates delivered straight to your inbox Kevin De Bruyne has long been a champion of social justice, despite being a white kid from a comfortable background in Belgium.
He memorably allowed his image, photoshopped so he looked like a man with Down’s Syndrome, to be used in advertising aimed at drumming up support for the Special Olympics, when he was a star at Wolfsburg in 2014.
De Bruyne's awareness is partly based on his background - he spent part of his childhood in the former Belgian colony of Burundi, and in Ivory Coast, due to his dad’s work for an oil company.
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