Accustomed to the blue tunic, Paul Pogba had to follow the latest outings of the France team from his living room. The French midfielder with 91 caps had a complicated last year. Injured at the end of last season, the 30-year-old had to wait until February to play football again.
In total, Paul Pogba has only played 10 games with Juventus Turin, he who returned to Italy last summer after his stint at Manchester United (2016-2022). “It’s since my return to the field that I feel really good, explains the Turin midfielder in a long interview with Views. For me, playing football is what I like the most. Just be healthy and play, that’s all I ask. I would even say that it was the biggest test of my life. After going through all that, it will be my greatest victory.”
Absent until February for a knee injury, Paul Pogba quickly relapsed. A difficult season for his return to Juve, after his first stint which had made him hatch at the highest level (2012-2016). A football in which the 2018 world champion no longer recognizes himself. “Today’s football has really changed because it is much more intense and I think we think a lot more about the result, confesses the midfielder, who also returned to his coronation in Russia and the aftermath. World Cup. It was seeing how people saw me, how they said ‘congratulations’ to me, ’thank you again for the World Cup’, that’s when I realized. We did something crazy and we really marked the French.
A native of Lagny-sur-Marne (77), Paul Pogba grew up in the northeast of the Paris region. Muslim, this player of Guinean origin also returned to the controversy of Ramadan in football that has occurred in recent weeks in France. “In recent years, all Muslims who wanted to fast have always fasted without asking for a time off, summarizes “La Pioche”. So I don’t know why this year it was. In fact, it was a controversy that was useless, because nobody asked for anything, nobody cried.
At the end of the interview, Paul Pogba also returned to racism in football and current society, he who has already suffered cries from monkeys in stadiums in Italy. “Blacks have already won, assures the 30-year-old midfielder. How many years were we slaves? Today we play football. We take the buses. We have cars. We are recognized all over the world. For me, it’s a victory. Me, my victory, what is it? It’s when I see white kids wearing my jersey, they ask me for autographs, they ask for pictures. You can be racist as you want, I have nothing against them, I have nothing against anyone. It’s a victory for me to play football, to play for Juventus, in Italy and to be recognized all over the world. There will always be racists and you can’t change that.”
