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After staying on the bench in Saturday’s game against Sweden (1-0), Eduardo Camavinga had the opportunity to become the youngest player to defend the French team in 96 years, when he entered the second half of the game that he won. the “Roosters”. Over Croatia 4-2 in the European Football League.
The 17-year-old 303-day midfielder, Rennes, entered in the 63rd minute of yesterday’s match which was a repeat of the 2018 World Cup final in Russia, when France crowned the world title for the second time in their history, instead of N’Golo Kante, who converted the Angolan-born midfielder to Congolese parents. The youngest person to wear the national team jersey since Maurice Gasteig, who was 17 years and 128 days old on January 8, 1914, when he competed against Luxembourg.
Camavinga, who moved to France at the age of two and acquired citizenship last November, is the third youngest player in the history of the national team, after Julian Verbrug, who played for France in 1906 when he was 16 years and 10 months old. , and Gasteigé, who made him “happy”. Proud of my family and of all the French people. “
“I’ve often played against older players and I think that allowed me a certain maturity.”
And luck played alongside Camavinga, who would not have had his chance “at the Stade de France” on the outskirts of Paris had it not been for the absence of Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba due to his Corona virus contagion.
France coach Didier Deschamps admitted that “it may be early (for Camavinga with the national team), but he has potentials that will lead him sooner or later to join this team.”
Even Paris Saint-Germain striker and national team star Kylian Mbappé, who missed Tuesday’s game because he was also infected with the “Covid-19” virus, did not have his chance with the “roosters” at this young age. , as he played his first match on March 25, 2017 against Luxembourg. In the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers, when he was 18 years, 6 months and 5 days old.
Kamavinga was happy with the way they treated him at the national team: “They welcomed me well, they made me feel comfortable and things went well.”
Shines both in the field and in life
Camavinga made his first match in the French League when he was 16 years and 4 months old, then scored his first goal eight months later, coinciding with his participation in the European League competition, “Europa League”.
His rise in football was definitely faster than the formalities to obtain French citizenship, which he finally obtained after a long wait in November 2019.
The young man with braided hair and a broad smile impresses with his maturity on the field, and begins to attract the attention of the best European teams.
Rennes coach Julian Stefan spoke about his young player a few days ago and said: “He is very powerful, disturbing and confusing (for the opponent). He has these qualities at a very high level. What happens to him is amazing.”
As for the French youth team coach Sylvain Ripoll, who had an opportunity to evaluate the young man during a team meeting, “the good thing about Eduardo is that he shines both on the field and in life,” according to Agence France-Presse , praising his “humility” and “joie de vivre”. In the player.
In turn, the world champion leader and guardian of the den Hugo Lloris revealed that “on the bus or at the table, everyone hopes to be seated before he takes his place in the vacant seat.”
Upon his arrival at the Clarefontaine camp, Camavinga had the honor of settling into the room of his ideal, Paul Pogba, but he did not settle for that, instead he carried on Tuesday’s match the number 6 of the United star against the absence of the “roosters”.
Now, although he still lives the life of a child in his parents’ home, Kamavinga’s next goal will be to enter the adult world without burning the stages, at least until he celebrates his eighteenth birthday on November 10.
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