Before Kylian Mbappé or Paul Pogba, there was Yann M’Vila! The 32-year-old footballer was, more than ten years ago, this young hope to whom everyone promised a great career. Propelled among professionals in 2009 with Stade Rennais, the midfielder will experience a meteoric rise that will lead him to the France team.
But the failures on and off the field will multiply. It is in a long interview given to Releasethat the former international, confided. “I left Rennes for Rubin Kazan because the Russians offered my training club 12 million euros for a transfer, while Queens Park Rangers put in 10. I earned more in London and the Premier League gave me more money. attracted“, he explained. His first experience, between 2013 and 2014, did not go well!
After two loans in Italy, in Milan and in Sunderland, in England, the young father returns to Russia. “When I return to Kazan in 2016, the leaders make me the biggest contract I have ever signed. Money does not buy happiness, I speak about it knowingly: it is at that moment that I sink into a deep depression”he said. “How did it manifest? Through anxiety attacks. There was also a context: the distance, the loneliness […] I was also worried about losing everything. Materially, but also the possibility of practicing the sport to which I have devoted my life”.
Yann will remember a significant episode. “I woke up one morning shaking. I thought I was going to die.” And to overcome this worrying state of health? “The club doctor gave me injections in the buttocks every night. Well… Addiction gets into your head, it can take you to something else like Lexomil, Xanax… Before games, I I felt like throwing up. And on the field: nickel. […] So I was afraid that the training would end.”
Since 2020, Yann M’Vila has been playing in Greece at Olympiakos. Just before the World Cup, he even launched a foot call to Didier Deschamps… remained unanswered!
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