From one manifestation to another. On March 11, Layvin Kurzawa ended the evening embraced by dozens of cheering supporters at the foot of the Auteuil turn, after qualifying his team in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. And too bad for the risks of Covid-19. This Tuesday evening, the left side of the PSG had pulled out the mask, this time, to parade with 20,000 people near the Paris courthouse. "Stop racism," sported the PSG player on a very basic cardboard sign.
Far from hiding, while the rally was prohibited by the police headquarters, the 27-year-old former Monegasque has fully taken his stand. "Freedom for Adama, Justice for George, Justice for all ... Today I saw a France that works together", he posted on his Instagram account, where he appeared with the singer Black M, also present. His brother Yrlès Teoro-Kurzawa, player from Nice, accompanied him.
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Justice for Adama Justice for George Justice for all ... Today I saw a France that works together ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #blacklivesmatter #notoracism #paris
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Kurzawa's position exceeds the wave of messages linked to the death of George Floyd in the United States, killed during his arrest by the police. But it ultimately fits pretty well with the personality of a player quite apart in the locker room of PSG. While the players are on vacation, the club did not wish to react to the presence of its employee Porte de Clichy. At Camp des Loges, we describe "a boy who is fundamentally kind, spontaneous and sincere. "
"He is a respectful, hyper-generous and committed guy"
"He is not in the calculation or in the construction of an image, explains his former agent Léandre Chouya, with whom he separated on good terms. He is a respectful, hypergenerous and committed guy. Very far from the image he has. That, outside the field, of a man passionate about rap and the United States, lover of big cars and whose absence of filter sometimes cost him dear. His conspicuous chambering towards the Swedish players with the France Espoir team, before a pitiful elimination, is a scar almost as difficult to erase as his countless tattoos. Since then, Layvin Kurzawa has oscillated between distrust and distrust of the media.
In 2016, the name of Kurzawa circulated, along with that of many personalities in the context of driving license trafficking. A year later, the left-hander had to manage a video blackmail case. It never came out, but he had to warn the coach that it contained insults against him. For a long time, too, the native of Fréjus was dazzled by the nights of the Riviera or Paris, as he recognized last year on Canal +.
"He's a boy who has grown and grown, but he's whole"
One of his trainers in Monaco, Bruno Irlès, describes all these facets: “In the beginning, we had to manage the negative sides of football. While Ranieri had sent him back to a game reserve, I learned that he had been clubbed the day before and I left him on the bench. Despite his talent, I couldn't let it go. But we stayed on good terms and in contact. He's a boy who has grown up. But it is whole. He does not pretend. He does things as he feels, without necessarily thinking of the consequences. I am not surprised that he attended this demonstration. From the moment when these are the ideas he wants to defend, he will not think. "
At the end of the contract at the end of the season, Layvin Kurzawa was already deprived of his two closest acolytes in the locker room with the departures of Serge Aurier and Adrien Rabiot. He is nevertheless friends with Presnel Kimpembe and slips some advice to the young shoots of the workforce. “He is calm, discreet, calm, even if he jokes from time to time. We have felt more maturity in him for some time. It is surely linked to the birth of his daughter. "
He gets loose on social networks
Domiciled in the calm of the Yvelines, the French international (13 selections, 1 goal) shares his daily life with his year-old offspring, Kendjaïa, and his partner Mélissa on social networks. Since the confinement, he launched himself into the production of often very successful content, without going through the very formatted boxes of com 'which shape the image of the champions.
"Sometimes, the fact of not calculating backfires, but he does not like to do evil," concludes Léandre Chouya. Yes, he did bullshit, but we all did it at his age. And yes, he loves rap, but that's not a crime. No more than sharing his beliefs loud and clear.
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