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When a young Eduardo Camavinga was in school one day, looked out the window and saw fire engines hurtling past at the time he thought little of it.
It was only at the end of that day that one of his teachers approached him and his younger sister to break the devastating news.
It was their house, in Lecousse, near Rennes, built by his parents and that the Camavingas had lived in for less than a year, that those emergency vehicles were racing to.
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The siblings were collected from school by their dad and taken to see for themselves the damage that had been caused by the blaze which started upstairs where Camavinga’s bedroom was.
The family lost nearly everything, from clothes to identity documents.
The mayor helped relocate them and the local club he played for at the time, Drapeau de Fougeres, organized donations of clothes and furniture.
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But it was to the family’s promising 10 year-old footballer - invited to a summer tournament by Rennes on the day of the fire - that attention soon turned to.
‘Eduardo, you are the hope of the family, it is you who will raise it up,’ his father Celestino told him.
Camavinga recalls laughing it off at the time but grasping the seriousness of his father’s words as he grew older and his mother Sofia reminded him of them. He promised to carry the burden by using his talents to help his hard-working family.
Camavinga is now at Real Madrid, one of Europe’s best young talents and has his parents, three sisters and two brothers all living with him, doubling as his support network, in their new family home in Spain.
The 19 year-old midfielder has delivered all that was asked of him and some.
Camavinga showing maturity well beyond his years, relishing responsibility and being totally unfazed under pressure?
Anyone who has followed his career since he became Rennes’s youngest ever player aged 16 and six months and noted his contribution to Madrid’s thrilling run to the Champions League final will recognise those personality traits.
Those qualities combined with his passing ability, composure, energy and tenacity have seen Camavinga emerge as one of Madrid’s game-changers in this season’s competition. Liverpool are long-standing admirers of Camavinga so may not be surprised.
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