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The video of his life: Anthony Warren beats sin and still hopes for a miracle - voila! sport

2023-04-06T09:51:22.393Z


Anthony Varane (32) is close to giving up and retiring from football. In the interview, he talks about depression, connection to Judaism and tradition, can't believe he didn't win a degree with Beitar and reveals details about the video


Summary: Beitar Jerusalem - Hapoel Haifa 0:2 (Sport1)

At the age of 32, Anthony Varane is on the verge of retiring from football.

The French-Jewish striker has been undergoing treatment for a year and a half following a tear in the lateral ligament in the hope of returning to the courts, but with time it is starting to become realistic.



"I'm still hoping for a miracle, I'll try until the summer, and if I don't feel like I can come back, I'll retire," he says in an interview on the occasion of the holiday. Overcome it, this time I can't. I'm not giving up yet, I'm continuing with every possible way and treatment to try and come back, but after a year and a half of it not happening, I'm a little more realistic.



"I don't want to say that word, but I haven't played football for a year and a half," he admits, "If they told me now that I was retiring, then I would have come to terms with it a little more, but if they had told me that half a year ago, I would have felt differently , because football is my whole life. When people retire they usually know a little in advance that it will happen, I wasn't ready, I was 30.5 years old when I got injured, I scored a brace a week before, I wasn't ready, I got some kind of shock."

Still not giving up.

Varen in Sakhnin uniform, possibly his last team (Photo: Lilac Weiss Rosenberg)

Warren immigrated to Israel more than 9 years ago straight to M.S.

Ashdod, passed several stops along the way and it is not difficult to quickly understand that football is his whole life.

When he says that he is realistic, he is full of pain and does not believe that automatically he might break up: "The first six months, even ten months, were real depression. My mind was not the same, I was in no mood, I did not want to leave the house, headaches, dizziness, There's no salary, of course, and you're pouring money into the rehabilitation. It's an injury that takes players two months to come back, and it got so complicated for me... I can't come back, and then you realize you might not come back at all - and it kills you.



"I'm not ashamed to say that I went into depression, I was in no mood, no desire to see people, nervous, I didn't know how to deal with it," he continues, "the injury was dangerous, you do rehabilitation and more rehabilitation and nothing happens, you lose motivation day by day And I have to go to Sakhnin for treatments and the next day for rehabilitation, that was the order of the day, the trip became so long and nothing gets better, it killed me. At some point, even though I knew I wasn't ready, I tried to come back and got injured after eight minutes of training."



Warren also shares something very personal, and explains: "During this period everything turned upside down for me, I wasn't Anthony, this is my livelihood and all I know, I have a small family here, but I am quite alone in the country and as a result of all this time I also broke up with my girlfriend, I lost her , she is the best person I know and the love of my life but because of all the depression and nerves I couldn't keep the relationship, despite everything we went through, including the famous video. What happened during the depression with her is the mistake of my life, we had already planned a family and children and everything stopped. We are still in contact And I hope that maybe things will change, if I can convey a message to her from here that I am sorry for this period, she is so precious and important to me."

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I saw that you started thinking about the day after



"Yes, I opened a hat and socks business called 'BONBON'. I cooperate with stores and it's progressing well. It's an idea of ​​mine and my mother's, it's something we know from France and in Israel it's something that didn't exist before, I believe it's It will be really strong. Right now it's mainly a beanie hat and socks in a special style, bonbon is candy in French and I'm trying my way in the business world, it was always clear to me that football is not forever."



We are on holiday, what is Pesach for you?



"Passover is a special holiday for me. In France I wouldn't have a Seder night because I didn't have a big family, I wouldn't live with my brothers because from a young age I was away from our home in Clermont, I was in academies and I lived alone, there was no one there with whom and how to spend the holidays. When I arrived in Israel, I connected with holidays, family, friends, relatives. My father was proud of me, he is an Israeli who grew up here and has family in Israel, my mother is Jewish who grew up in France and was less connected, he knew her there. It's really fun and connects me to Israel and Judaism, in Israel in general you feel Many more Jews and connected, I connected to the religion here and to be a part, only here is our place, I am excited by everything related to Judaism and tradition, it is ours."



As a child and teenager in France, did we suffer from racism?



"No, in France not everyone knew I was Jewish. It's not that I hid it, my close friends knew, I also grew up with a lot of Arabs and there was no problem, they were my friends and it doesn't matter to them, it's not like what happens here. There are extremists who don't like Jews, But where I grew up there was no problem, people don't bother with it, they bother with the person and not the origin."

The uniform he is most identified with.

Warren in the yellow-black of Beitar (Photo: Danny Maron)

You were in Ashdod, Hapoel Jerusalem, Be'er Sheva, but you will always be identified with the tenure at Beitar Jerusalem



"I did not expect to sign at Beitar. I was two years in Hapoel Jerusalem, I did not believe that I would be able to get to Beitar then, we would train next to them at Hapoel Jerusalem and I would look up to them and to Beitar The quality players, I didn't think I could get there.

I believed that I was worthy of the Premier League, but I did not expect to get to Beitar so quickly, especially that we were relegated to League A in the season that Beitar added me, it was a dream.

Everything came together in Beitar, the crowd accepted me, the players didn't see me as a danger to them and everyone hugged me like Shechter and Ward, as if we've been friends for years, it's very important for a player who comes from a lower league, it gives you great confidence to play as you know."



The disappointment of the cup final will always accompany you



"Listen, to this day I still haven't recovered from this cup final. I don't understand how we didn't win the Teddy Cup final when the whole stadium was almost full of Beitar fans.

On a personal level, I had the best season of my career with 17 goals in all formats, including a goal in the cup final and head to head with Beer Sheva for the championship until the end, but on the team side we remember the end and within five days we lost both the championship and the cup and we were left with a bitter taste.

The cup is the biggest disappointment in my career.

It was clear that everything was ready and everything was perfect for the Beitar cup, the final in Teddy with all our crowd, the celebrations in the park are ready, to this day I think what my life would have been like with a cup.



"I'll tell you a story. A few days ago I was in Haifa and I saw some Hapoel Haifa fans on the street who said to me, 'How did we take the cup from you? We didn't even believe it, we were sure you were taking it,' there's nothing we can do, it's from above. I remember that I equalized 1:1 And the stadium was crazy, I was sure we won 1:6, I was sure our game. To this day I can't believe we didn't win."



And what happened next?



"I continued in Beitar, but Roni Levy came and he wanted me less, that's his right.

I moved to Be'er Sheva, at first things worked out and then Roni Levy arrived there as well.

I have no complaints against him, it's not something personal, it's his right not to like a player of my style, I should have moved on.

the truth?

I most wanted to continue at Beitar and finish my career there, even now, this is the club I connected with the most both professionally and emotionally, I still go to games at Teddy, in contact with people, I will always feel a part of this club, I remember the day I left Beit Vagan I went and cried , I couldn't believe it was happening to me, but I had no choice."



It was not easy with Joshua in Be'er Sheva



"Listen, he's a character. He's a football star, but he has a very difficult personality, he also admits it. If you don't pass him well on the field, or a pass doesn't come as well as he wants, he gets a turn on you, he doesn't see eye to eye. He does full Laughs and nonsense, but he's full of nerves, because he's so good he's not ready to accept that people may not think as fast as him or not at his level technically and goes crazy. It doesn't fit in the team because he gets nervous on everyone, players lose confidence from these shouts, there are some They didn't want to play with him because of his behavior."

"Ronnie didn't want me. Jeshua? There are some who didn't want to play with him" (Photo: Danny Maron)

What happened with him and with Shagiv Yehezkel?

There was a lot of blood on the floor



"It was a game against Petah Tikva. I hadn't arrived at the complex yet, I was outside and I see Joshua outside running to the car covered in blood on his face. I went in and they said he had a fight with Shagiv, things were thrown and he was hit by glass or Don't know why, it wasn't surprising, he had a lot of scary fights, with almost everyone, that was part of him. It crossed a red line, that's why they also understood that he couldn't continue, players also told the right people that he couldn't continue, senior players , in the group there are things that cannot be done."



Let's go back to the famous video.

You were crushed in those days, do you remember the moment it happened?



"Of course, as if it happened now, it's a trauma that won't go away. I was at home with my friend in Jerusalem. She gets the message on the phone, she shows me and asks me what it is, asking if it's me. I'm shocked that it even came out, I explained to her that it was a long time ago , before we even met, it was two years ago, but it's not pleasant, it was very difficult for her. It's not just between us, it's something unpleasant and not nice to see and it's also something private that the whole world sees. After half an hour I already understood what madness it was, when Dozens sent me this. And it just started, there was a police investigation, there is a family, the shame is the hardest part, the shame in front of her family, in front of my family, in front of the children who love me as an actor, it's a shame. My family is mostly in France so it was mostly from the family Mine in Israel, on the one hand they strengthened me and supported me, but they also told me, 'What did you do? It's a shame, we don't do things like that,' I had to deal with it within the family as well."



There were pressures from all corners to suspend you from Beitar following the video



"It would have looked bad and legitimate for them to make such a decision, this video is a very bad message, but Eli Tabib took care of me like his son, until now I thank him for that and we are in a good relationship, already in the game after I played, he kept me in the frame and the fans also supported me And it helped me a lot to get through this crisis."




I remember that a few days later you didn't come to training and they said you were cut by glass, it was very clear to me why glass was broken



"Yes, so I couldn't tell it, but there were photographers outside my house, there was a catastrophe and I was crazy nervous, I broke things a bit and kicked them in the house. I'm strong in my head, but I was afraid for my ex who took it so hard and for the family. In the end, most Kicking things I kicked a broken glass box, I even fought with the photographers outside my house, there were crazy days that you only see in movies, a person can go crazy from that. By the way, I was cut by the glass, but in the end they made me bandages and I asked to get dressed for the game, I didn't allow myself to give up, I understood the the meaning of what will happen if I'm not in the squad."

Bonbon hat.

Warren presents the brand he owns (photo: Walla! system, private album)

What in the end, Anthony or Gatan?



"The truth is that it's not me, it's perceived that way in Israel. Anthony is my second name. When I arrived, they asked me what my name was and I answered 'Gatan', they told me 'What?', I said 'Leave, Anthony' and since then it's been perceived.

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