A past life to pursue the legend of Lilian Thuram and – soon – it will be even easier for him to invite him to dinner to let some secrets be revealed. Benjamin Pavard he was among the most ardent fans of the legendary defender that we have seen with Parma and Juventus shirts, now he is about to become his son Marcus’ teammate at Inter, as if that surname represented the continuity of a career that is still in full swing.
He begins to
Jeumont the story of a little boy who, as told by those who at the time were gawping at him, “was very shy in everyday life but
he transformed as soon as he set foot on the pitch”. Real player look and ability to take responsibility, yet it was
just a child. Just to give some reference, Jeumont is a small village of about ten thousand inhabitants in the
Northern department of Upper Francecanton of Mauberge (capital city of about thirty thousand inhabitants) but above all a handful of kilometers from
border with Belgium. Brussels, to be clear, is only about sixty kilometers away.
An only child, Benjamin inherited his father’s love of football,
central defender of US Mauberge in the 80s in the Third Division. By dint of receiving as a gift
ball shirts instead of cars and toy soldiers, little Pavard at the age of six started playing
in the youth teams of US Jeumontthe club from his hometown, where it was used by
central midfielder on the field to seven. Skinny from six to nine years old, then suddenly strengthened and ready for a more important adventure. In 2006, his father took him to support
two tryoutsone with the
Lille and one with the
Lens. Positive both. It was a matter of choosing between two clubs used to throwing young players through theirs
training centers. The Pavard family chose Lille.
Here we must return to the geographical references. Jeumont is from Lille
a hundred kilometres. Yet no one in the Pavard household was frightened. The father – who had certainly not become rich with football – was the
store at the hospital of
Maubergewhere instead the mother was
secretary. It was a question of organization: it had to be done
coincide turns so that four times a week Benjamin could go to Lille for training and matches. With
any condition of time. Yes, because in the meantime the little boy
he was getting good really with a ball at his feet and in the meantime he was also doing well in school, first at
Lavoisière College then to
Liceo Jean Perrin and Lambesart. Later he would attend the so-called
“hope center”a kind of boarding school run by the club, located at
Lièvina few kilometers from Lille, until you sign up
at the Higher Institute of Physical Education, then abandoned as soon as he became a professional footballer, but not definitively, “because one day someone will ask me why I don’t have a diploma”. Meanwhile, in 2011 he was already a player of national interest because he participated with the selection of the region
Nord Pas de Calais at the
Under 15 National Cup disputed at
Clairefontainethe federal center equivalent to our Coverciano Technical Centre.
Professional, inevitably professional. Always better eg
ever more decisiveor as a defender in the Lille youth team, on 31 January 2015, before even turning nineteen,
was deployed owner in the first team by the coach
René Girard away against Nantes. Benjamin took it
a yellow card and the game ended 1-1, but his performance (as a central defender) was underlined
positively from all the French press. From that day it was permanently inserted
in the first team group and from March 15 onwards
promoted permanent owner after the central defender’s injury
Marco Basa. Pavard stood out not only for his authority on the pitch, decidedly unusual for his nineteen years, also for his
curls which surrounded his face and which earned him the nickname of
“Jeff Tuché”from the name of the protagonist of a French comedy entitled “Les Tuches”, played by the actor Jean-Paul Rouve.
The following year was to be that of the further leap in quality. Benjamin started him as a starter because Basa was still injured, but as soon as the Montenegrin was available again,
the new coach Frèderic Antonetti he decided that he preferred to rely on experience and relaunch Basa paired with the Argentine
Renato Civelli. On 30 August 2016, a 20-year-old Pavard signed a four-year contract with Stuttgart. Cost of the operation
five millionsa digit that entered it at the time
among the ten most expensive purchases in the history of the German club that played for the
Second Bundesliga, the German Serie B. A few days to conquer the
trusted by coach Tayfun Korkut, a season to climb back to the Bundesliga. Pavard always in the starting lineup, almost always as a central defender. First Bundesliga goal dated 29 October 2017 against Freiburg.
In the meantime, here it is also in
National. Didier Deschamps called him up on 2 November 2017, making his debut eight days later against Wales. Since then, Pavard
it never came out from the group of the French national team, he played as a starter and
won the World Cup of 2018 in Russia, he was a starter until the first match of
World Cup 2022 against Australia, when he was held responsible for a serious defensive error (playing at right-back) and was shelved (temporarily) by his coach.
Meanwhile, however, Stuttgart was facing
a cruel fate in the 2018-19 season, which started with Korkut on the bench and continued with
Markus Weinzierl after seven straight losses. The new coach was about to perform
half a miraclearriving at the playoff-rescue against l
’Union Berlinterza classificata in Second Bundesliga,
playoff lost only due to the away goals rule, now abolished. However, on January 9, 2019 it had already become formally
a Bayern Munich playerfor a sum of 35 million euros (his release clause), with the agreement to stay in Stuttgart until the end of the season.
Bayern is recent history. Debut in
German Super Cup lost against Borussia Dortmund, 2019-2020 season played completely as a starter, turning a bit
all defense roles due to his teammates’ injuries. It has been fixed since November
constantly on the right wing and there it remains, save during a bout of injuries. Wins with Bayern la
Champions League and becomes the youngest Frenchman to have won both the Big Ears Cup and the World Championship. He then won one
European super cup, and
Club World Cupthe 2022 Bundesliga under the guidance of Nagelsmann and that of 2023 under the guidance of Tuchel who took over from his colleague, up to the
great desire to leave Monaco who attacked him this summer.
In the world of feelings, one
deep friendship ties him to Olivier Giroud, who had brought him some time ago to say that
dreamed to play for Milan. Things are going differently and Giroud at the end
will be his direct opponent in the derby, he will probably also have to mark him. Among the love stories, the most media related tied him from February 2018 to February 2019 to
Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Miss France in 2007. Currently the gossip chronicles define him as “single”. In the meantime he has found a team, the rest will be seen.
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