“Where does this negative image come from? » asked Véronique Rabiot, Adrien’s mother and agent, in an interview with West France released on Monday. She answers herself: “I think it has to do with the fact that we don’t talk enough to journalists. So they break us. But I have thick skin. I have nothing to prove, we have nothing to prove. I don’t want to reveal myself and neither does Adrien. He plays football, it’s his passion and off the field, he would like to lead a discreet life. He doesn’t want to explain or justify himself. »
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“We haven’t forgiven him for anything. And this from the age of 17.
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However, she wanted to defend her son, criticized in recent weeks for his performances with Juventus, where he has been playing since 2019 and his free departure from PSG. “We haven’t forgiven him for anything. And this from the age of 17. Mistakes, everyone makes them all their life. We don’t realize that footballers are teenagers when they start, that they have to grow up as men. They are not robots. In Italy, the press says it’s bad? He does not worry about it and he plays all the matches. I would like the general public to know what is the path of footballers to reach the top level. All we say is: “They are overpaid, etc…” But people don’t know how much that demands sacrifices from them, a mind of steel. »
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Véronique Rabiot also wanted to come back to her image and that of her son with the general public: “The image of the little boy to his mother does not reflect reality at all. I am an authoritarian person, it is true, my children have often reproached me for it. But not the one described in the media. » She said no more and did not return to “the so-called episode that occurred in the stands between me and the families of certain players during France – Switzerland at Euro 2021”. The reason : “I can’t talk about it, there is a procedure in progress. »
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