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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sid Lowe in Madrid

Eduardo Camavinga: ‘People think Madrid are dead, but Madrid are never, never dead’

Eduardo Camavinga at Real Madrid’s Valdebebas training ground.
Eduardo Camavinga has played every minute of the past 10 games for Real Madrid. Photograph: Pablo García/The Guardian

“My dad told me I was the one who was going to lift the family up,” Eduardo Camavinga says. He was 11 then; he is 20 now and he is smiling. He is always smiling.

He was in the fifth year at school and can picture the fire engines going past. Born in a refugee camp in Miconge, Angola, to Congolese parents, the third of six children, he was a toddler when they moved to France: first Lille, then Fougères, a pretty little town of 20,000 in Brittany where they made a home. That day, it burned down. They had been in it a year.

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