Football
The tournament, the heart of the day, for 10 to 23-year-olds, followed by a free closing concert: L2B Gang, Lim's, 2Raffale, Beendo Z, SLK… and Guy2Bezbar in 2025.
← Manu Koné
Event created by Manu Koné · Villeneuve-la-Garenne
MK Cup
A football tournament and five spaces for jobs, football careers, performance and culture. By a child of the town, for the young people of the town.
3rdedition in 2025
15 June2025, Villeneuve-la-Garenne (92)
5zones: football, business, football careers, performance, culture
7 partnersin the business & entrepreneurship zone
They support the MK Cup
The five zones
Business & entrepreneurship
Face-to-face meetings with recruiters and support organisations.
- Jeune Afrique
- Mozaïk RH
- Les Déterminés
- RATP
- Drop Interim
- Win Sport
- IFSA
Football careers
People who make football happen without being players talk about their daily work.
- Gaël Angoula · Ligue 1 referee
- Ali Djedid · referee
- Anoush Morel · press officer
- Mehdi Hormat · Instant Foot
- Alexandre Chaillol · Foot Mercato
- Nordine Benhamed · physiotherapist
- Siam Qasi · sports doctor, FC 93
Performance
Nutrition and new technologies serving the body.
- Cécile Capdeville · nutritionist
- Meta VR headsets
Culture
Manga as a gateway to creativity.
- Tiers Monde · manga artist
The story
Manu Koné's tournament, at home
The MK Cup is the event created by Manu Koné in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, the town where he grew up. A football tournament, but not only that: around the pitch, spaces dedicated to jobs, entrepreneurship, football careers, performance and culture, so that local young people leave with a contact, an idea, a lead.
Third edition, 15 June 2025
Football tournament, closing concert with Guy2Bezbar and five zones open all day. In the business zone, partners met young people for practical conversations about jobs and training; in the football careers zone, Ligue 1 referees, a press officer, journalists, a physiotherapist and a sports doctor talked about their daily work; the performance zone combined nutrition and virtual reality headsets; the culture zone welcomed manga artist Tiers Monde.
The concert, a signature
Every edition ends with music, free, for the whole town: L2B Gang, RSKO, YSR and 2Raffale from the very first edition in 2022; a bigger line-up in 2023 with Lim’s, L2B Gang, Beendo Z, SLK, Genezio, Le Top So Thug, R2S, BKL Yonko and Saamou Skuu, hosted by DJ Babs; then Guy2Bezbar in 2025.
The ambition
“One day, I'd like people to be able to say: I saw Manu Koné, I found a job and I became an engineer or a minister.”Manu Koné