Football: focus on French international Eduardo Camavinga

On the evening of Tuesday May 9, the semi-final of the Champions League, which opposes Real Madrid to Manchester City, begins. The opportunity for journalist Samuel Ollivier, present on the 8 Hours set, to highlight French footballer Eduardo Camavinga, who plays for Real Madrid. 20 years old, “Eduardo Camavinga has won all the competitions he has participated in with Real Madrid”says Samuel Ollivier. In 2022, he won the Champions League, the leaguethere Supercup from Spain, the Supercup from Europe and the Club World Cup. In 2023, he added the King’s Cup to his list.

A “tortuous” personal history

Eduardo Camavinga is seven selections in the France team. His presence in the Blues was not obvious at the start. “Sportingly, there was never really any doubt. On the other hand, the personal history of Eduardo Camavinga is more tortuous, even painful”indicates Samuel Ollivier, before explaining that the parents of Eduardo Camavinga left Congo before his birth, when the country was in the grip of civil war. It was in a refugee camp in Angola that Eduardo Camavinga was born. His parents then left for Brittany with Eduardo Camavinga and his five siblings. He only got French citizenship in November 2019, so he couldn’t play for France’s youth teams before.