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"The Pogmentary" on Amazon Prime Video: an intimate dive into the life of Paul Pogba

2022-06-17T04:04:06.494Z


Like Neymar or Sergio Ramos before him, the Mancunian is the hero of a documentary series broadcast this Friday on Amazon Pr


A French star at the center of an American-style documentary.

Everything, or almost, from his debut at the city-stadium of Roissy-en-Brie (77) to his last hours in the Manchester United jersey, so this is what "The Pogmentary", a mini-series broadcast from this Friday, June 17 on Prime Video, promises to unveil Paul Pogba.

"La Pioche", as you've never seen it, shared between the tranquility of the family cocoon and its questions about its future, this is what the 5 thirty-minute episodes broadcast on the platform have chosen to tell. from Amazon.

In a stylized portrait, interspersed with “Olive and Tom” animation sequences, archival images and moments of confessions, Pogba and his relatives reveal the different facets of his character.

That of a young man, whom the death of his father in 2017, made suddenly grow and propelled into the galaxy of responsible and protective fathers.

In any case, this is the picture that reflects the moments of intimacy captured with his wife Zulay and their two toddlers, Labile Shakur and Keeyan Zahid.

What also emerges from the benevolent exchanges with his mother Yeo Moriba, too stressed to attend the penalty shootout against Switzerland in the round of 16 of the Euro, but present when necessary, in particular to support his son in his charitable actions.

“Paul sparkles, wherever he goes, he shines,” says Zulay when talking about this solar husband and showman whom she knew nothing about when they met in 2016 in Miami.

“In life, some people are hard to love.

Paul, we love him easily”, agrees his agent Mino Raiola, who died on April 30, 2022. A very present character, inevitably, in this portrait whose red thread consists in raising the suspense around the Cornelian choice of a Pogba coming to the end of his contract: whether or not to leave Manchester United!

Fans of the leader of the Blues will not have the right to the scoop on his future destination.

But this immersion in his universe will allow them to understand that career choices are not made with a simple snap of the fingers.

Behind the scenes and confidences

They will also see his complicity with Raiola, whom he affectionately nicknamed "The terror of the clubs".

As well as with her successor, Rafaela Pimenta, the lawyer whom Pogba says he considers a "second mother".

True to his reputation, Raiola is cash when he wonders why "the Pogba of the Blues is not the one we see at the Reds" mischievous when he says "want to see him at PSG", a club in which “the King (Pogba) would be back” and ultimately captivating with each of his interventions.

From the vacation apartment in Miami to the Manchester nest via Dubai, we also see "PP" thinking with Blaise Matuidi about the transmission of values, briefing Raphaël Varane on the atmosphere of Old Trafford, conversing in Italian, English or Spanish with the same ease as in French, reviewing their successes, evoking their failures, their wounds and this future which now involves an entire family.

Everything is very controlled, leaves no room for improvisation but nevertheless opens a door to an underside of the decor to which only the privileged usually have access.

"The Pogmentary" also allows his hero to reveal a few secrets, such as the one concerning the reasons for his breakup with José Mourinho, and to discuss his second life, post-football, which he envisages across the Atlantic and why not on a large scale. screen.

Only certainty, "Paul is a star, very comfortable and able to do everything in front of a camera", smiles Rafaela Pimenta.

The proof in pictures from this Friday on Prime Video.

Source: leparis

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