TURIN – It doesn’t mean that Paul Pogbastill awaiting a ruling from the Lausanne Tas on the doping issueboth particularly happy. It certainly isn’t “destroyed”neither “died” neither “finished”as reported by some sites, taking up a phantom interview of his reported by “The Guardian Nigerian“. And the case is exemplary of how it can be manipulated a piece of news todaymaking it go around the world very quickly.
2022 interview
It all started from a television interview given by Pogba on Qatari TV Al Jazeera, in the summer of 2022, that of his return to Turin. It’s a long chat, in which Paul tells his story and tell the difficulties faced with fame, how money can change personal relationships, how success can take you high and send you lowin short, a very “philosophical“.
Cut and sew
And, at a certain point, Pogba explains to the journalist: «Cruel football, look at people like Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi, every time they have to prove something, despite what they have won and demonstrated. One day you’re sky high, the next day if you don’t perform, they’ll write you off. I can be a champion today and then later… I’m finished, I’m dead, Pogba no longer exists”. The transition lasts 36 seconds in the interview (which is still on YouTube, where Al Jazeera uploaded it in September 2023), if you mischievously extrapolate sonly the last 10 you have a perfect «Pogba shock: I’m finished» ready to make the rounds of the sites and fill up with comments.
