IIt’s rare for a celebrity to enter The world by an editorial. She generally has to study for more or less time in information articles, languishing under the harness of rubricards’ papers, before the learned editorial team ventures to express a point of view about her. Paul Pogba is an exception and it suits him quite well, this football player, to stand out here again.
On and off the field, the French team player has never done anything like the others. His journey will have been woven only of very highs and very lows, his good performances making us forget his escapades and his escapades making us forget his bad performances. Latest incident to date: the Juventus Turin midfielder tested positive for testosterone on August 20. He is awaiting the result of a second opinion to find out if he will be convicted of doping and liable to a suspension which could end his career at the age of 30.
It was therefore in an editorial that his name appeared, on September 7, 2009. He was then only 16 years old and was training in Le Havre when Manchester United poached him. “without a transfer certificate having been issued by the Federation” French football. The English club already offers the prodigy a salary of 15,000 euros per month. The world therefore calls for “a moralization of transfers concerning minor footballers, an area in which the richest clubs have behaved like predators for around ten years”.
Worthy successor to George Best
Four years later, Paul Pogba spearheaded the “Bleuets” who became under-20 world champions. He is still in the making but is already attracting attention with his haircut, head shaved on the sides and topped with a Mohican crest whose color varies according to matches and moods.
Dwelling on this capillary appendage, the British fashion designer Paul Smith, in an article dated October 12, 2013, already praises the young man for an original spirit and, in this way, a worthy successor to the pop icon George Best, legendary player of the Manchester United of the 1960s and 1970s whose eccentricities as much as their talent delighted the crowds.
At 21, Paul Pogba played his first World Cup in Brazil, where France reached the quarter-finals. The opportunity for Rémi Dupré to paint us, on June 14, 2014, a portrait of the player. His family is originally from Guinea. He cut his teeth in Roissy-en-Brie, then in Torcy, in the Paris region. His reputation as an enfant terrible is already great. Didn’t he, at barely 19 years old, take on Alex Ferguson, the untouchable manager of Manchester United, and demand his transfer to Juventus Turin? “My goal is to be the best player in the world,” he declared upon arriving in Italy. His matches sometimes confirm this ambition, sometimes invalidate it. The reports fluctuate between raves and disappointments.
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