The Frenchman tells the BBC about his difficult adolescence: “Sometimes I asked for alms and sold drugs, the turning point when I arrived in Italy”
“Football saved me”. He has no trouble admitting it, Patrice Evra, when he remembers his adolescence. A life made of poverty, abuse and actions on the edge of legality before breaking into sport, as the former Manchester United and Juventus player told during Freeze The Fear, a BBC program. “Before starting this career, I often begged in front of shops and sold drugs. Sometimes at midnight McDonald’s would throw out all the cold sandwiches, my friends and I would climb into the bins and rummage through the garbage to eat them. When my father went away. away, it was chaos. There are some things I’m not proud of, “admitted the Frenchman.
ABUSE
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As he previously revealed in his autobiography, I love this game, at 13 he was sexually abused by his school principal: “I lived with the trauma, that’s how I am. Many men have a certain toxic masculinity, so crying becomes a weakness and I’ve never let anyone into this story. Then when you lose faith in authority, you can’t trust anyone. ” Only after several years Evra talked about it with his family, feeling guilty for not collaborating with the police who had contacted him to investigate this man, after some allegations of sexual violence on other children. But then he hadn’t been able to confess his experience.
NEW LIFE IN ITALY
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The turning point came when he was noticed by some Italian observers. He could play in the Turin youth teams or immediately compete among the professionals in Serie C with the Marsala shirt. He chose Sicily: “When I was 17 I moved to Italy, I remember that I went into my room and found a suit. I called my mother, I told her that this was paradise: people served me food, we had two forks and two knives “. The following year he moved to Monza in Serie B, where, however, he did not find much space. He thus returned to France, to Nice, in the second division. From there he was bought by Monaco and later by Manchester United. Then, in 2014, he moved to Juventus where he played for two and a half years, winning two league titles, two Italian Cups and an Italian Super Cup. After his stints at Marseille and West Ham, he retired in 2018.
April 27 – 20:54
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