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Patrice Evra: "Footballers are toys and cattle"

2022-01-12T14:46:43.878Z


INTERVIEW - The former captain of the Blues gives himself straight to Figaro on the hot topics of football and "jostles" Kylian Mbappé.


At the heart of a promotional tour accomplished at a run in Paris, the elegant and talkative Patrice Evra arrives all smiles, Wednesday morning, at the publisher of his autobiography (I love this game, Hugo Sport editions) a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe.

For a rich and unfiltered exchange around his career but also his childhood marked by a violent sexual assault.

Interview.

You evoke the rape lived during your childhood, the life in the suburbs, your career in club and with the Blues, what is the thing of which you are most proud in your biography?


Patrice Evra:

From this child who starts from nothing.

If it were up to me, I would only have spoken of my youth and the first chapter, the wild child.

Football is part of my life, but I was a robot, programmed to win without emotion.

I would like to make children understand the culmination of a career that it is a very long journey with ups and downs and that nothing should be given up despite the…

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Source: lefigaro

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