If the “Citizens” rely a lot on Erling Haaland in the first leg of the Champions League, Real will be able to count on its “X” factor: the French international has become essential in a few months.
It’s a final before the hour: from the top of its fourteen Champions League, Real Madrid, reigning European champion, rubs shoulders with Manchester City, with an almost virgin record on the European scene but which still impresses a little more his opponents.
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This poster of the semi-finals of the great European football cup looks like a match between the institution against the new power. And if the “Cityzens” of Pep Guardiola rely a lot on their Norwegian “cyborg”, Erling Haaland, the “Merengue” can count on the French international Eduardo Camavinga, who in a few months has become a must.
And the numbers speak for him: at only 20 years old, Eduardo Camavinga has already experienced almost everything, including an epic World Cup final in the jersey of the France team, of course. And, in two years, in the Real Madrid jersey, he won all the trophies possible: six in total, including the continental “Big Ears Cup”.
“He can play in all positions on the pitch”
Eduardo Camavinga is a comet, whose meteoric rise arouses admiration, starting with that of his coach at Real. “What I can say about Camavinga is that he is a player with extraordinary qualities. And in all areas: physical, technical, tacticalassures the Italian Carlo Ancelotti. Even though he’s still young, he’s better than before, and he’s still progressing. For me, he can play in all positions on the pitch: if I put him as playmaker, he will be good, if I put him in central defense, he will be good. He has something special: he is a special player“, described the technician, before smiling while slipping that Eduardo Camavinga has “the engine of a Ferrari, not that of a Fiat 500“.
Let it be said: the kid from Fougères, in Ille-et-Vilaine, trained at Stade Rennais, has become a centerpiece of the great Real Madrid, and it does not matter whether he plays in the middle or in defense. As a child, Eduardo Camavinga wanted to do judo, like his big brother, but his mother didn’t want to. She was the one who insisted that he play football.