The year 2022 has not been easy for Paul Pogba. A few weeks ago, the footballer and his partner were targeted by a burglary. Their child was at home when the facts took place.
A difficult moment that the footballer had trouble digesting. “When I get home, I find my home broken into after three people broke in and stole my safe. There were jewels from my mother, my world champion medal… What scared me the most was that my two children were at home with the nanny during this incident. She overheard everything, called my wife and security, then locked herself with the boys (ages 2 and 1) in a room. For several days, she was shocked. The main thing is that my children are well” told Paul Pogba in the columns of Figaro.
But there was another event that changed his life a few years earlier: the death of his father. During his interview for seven to eight, the sportsman returned to this moment. As a reminder, Paul Pogba lost his father Fassou Antoine Pogba on May 12, 2017. He died of a long illness at the age of 79, one year before his victory at the 2018 World Cup.
“It was two emotions. I was very happy and I was sad too because I remember, when I watched the videos of the 1998 World Cup goals, it was with my father (…) There, I was able to win it , but he was not among us. So it was a moment of sadness and pride at the same time (…) he remains in my heart (…) He is in me”, confided the star not without emotions. He had also paid tribute to him on the lawn when the time came…
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Interviewed on the program Seven to Eight, broadcast on Sunday June 5, Paul Pogba talks about the heritage of his parents and confides in how the death of his father affected his victory at the FIFA World Cup in 2018 .
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This Sunday, June 5, Audrey Crespo-Mara interviews Paul Pogba in “The Portrait of the week” of the show Seven to eight, which will be broadcast from 7:30 p.m. on TF1. The footballer, who leaves the Manchester club, where he entered at the age of 16, confided in his career in the middle of the football, on his projects, but also on his family. On May 12, 2017, he lost his father, Fassou Antoine Pogba, who died of a long illness at the age of 79, a few months before he won the World Cup in July 2018. Five years later, the sportsman returned to this double-flavored victory.
A mixture of “sadness and pride”
“It was two emotions. I was very happy and I was sad too because I remember, when I was watching the videos of the 1998 World Cup goals, it was with my father,” he said. declared Paul Pogba, specifying that “it was [s]we dream” of participating in such an international event and above all of winning a victory. “There, I was able to win it, but he was not among us. So it was a moment of sadness and pride at the same time”, explained the 29-year-old footballer, who continues to think of his father, who remains “in [s]on heart” despite his absence, but also “in [s]es prayers”. “He is in me”, added the young man with emotion.
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A father present in his thoughts when the footballer is on the pitch
As a reminder, when Paul Pogba and the other players of the France team won the World Cup almost four years ago, the footballer had the reflex to kiss a photo of his father, to touch his heart and then look at the sky. A very touching scene that the supporters of the Blues did not miss and which will remain engraved in the memory of its biggest fans. On his Instagram account, for Father’s Day 2018, the sportsman had posted a snapshot of him on the lawn, the photo of his father in his hand, writing with tenderness and in the caption of his publication: “Dad, it’s was for you.”