Benjamin Pavard June 30, 2018 will be remembered for a long time, the day of the eighth finals of the World Cup against Argentina by Lionel Messi. While the French are led and are struggling in this match, the right-back of the Blues succeeds in a volley from elsewhere which will remain etched in our memories for a long time. Afterwards, he became a sort of fan mascot, and even got a song in his honor, proof of the place he has in the hearts of his compatriots. Installed in Germany for several years and irremovable holder of the prestigious Bayern Munich, the 25-year-old footballer confided in a journalist from The team about his life across the Rhine.
Winner of the Champions League with his club, Benjamin Pavard had a perfect start for Munich. “I arrived, we won everything. I couldn’t have asked for a better start”, before evoking a much more contrasted period: “After there was the Covid, which was a difficult time. Personally, it wasn’t easy at all, to be alone, in a country which is not mine, far from my family, my friends “.
Just because you make a good living doesn’t mean you’re happy
Obviously very affected by the health crisis, when the journalist relaunches it, the teammate of Kingsley Coman in Germany marks a long silence before confiding. “Very few people know what I went through. Just because you make a good living doesn’t mean you’re happy. There are family, friends too. I’m not complaining, it happened to a lot of people in France and elsewhere but here it is, it was not an obvious period of my life “, loose the French, still marked emotionally.
If the health crisis was not easy to manage for the young footballer, a time in a relationship with the former Miss France, Rachel Legrain-Trapani, things have nevertheless evolved in the right direction. “It was a period that made me evolve as a man. Today, I moved on to something else, I went up the slope. I’ve been getting better and better for over a month “, he assures. Good news for the player and for Didier Deschamps’ team, who will need his talent to go for a new World Cup in 2022!