Es geschah mit 13

Fußball-Legende Patrice Evra: Ich wurde sexuell missbraucht

Feb 28, 2019 - London, United Kingdom - FOR A few months in the fraught and angry winter of 2011, when football loyalties overrode what was right and wrong and highprofile allegations of racist abuse turned club against club and player against player and ruined friendships and careers, Patrice Evra found himself suddenly cast back on to the mean streets of Les Ulis, the tough suburb to the southwest of Paris where his character had been forged. Evra was playing for Manchester United and living in the affluent Cheshire village of Alderley Edge by then but after he accused Liverpool's Luis Suarez of repeatedly calling him 'negro' during a match between the two sides at Anfield in the October of that year, he became the focus of a bitter battle between England's two biggest clubs amid an atmosphere that was increasingly racially charged. As a simultaneous controversy raged over allegations of racist insults aimed at Anton Ferdinand by John Terry, a case which led Terry to quit international football in protest at his treatment by the FA, Evra was first accused of inventing the abuse and then forced to watch as supporters of Suarez resorted to arcane defences of his behaviour. Long before Brexit, Evra, who announced his retirement from the game last week after a career in which he won the Champions League and five league titles for United and two Serie A titles with Juventus, became a barometer for the racial climate in English society and in domestic football. He was the subject of death threats for his allegations against Suarez. His character was assassinated. (Credit Image: © Graham Chadwick/Mail on Sunday/SOLO Syndication)
Schockierendes Geständnis von Patrice Evra
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Frankreichs Fußball-Legende Patrice Evra ist als Jugendlicher nach eigenen Angaben sexuell missbraucht worden. Das gab der mittlerweile 40-Jährige in einem Interview zur Veröffentlichung seiner Autobiographie mit der Zeitung „Times“ erstmals bekannt. Evra erklärte, dass der Missbrauch stattfand, als er 13 Jahre alt war. Nicht einmal seine Mutter oder Familie hätten von dem Vorfall gewusst.

Ein Schock für seine Mutter

"Erst jetzt, wo ich 40 Jahre alt bin, sagte ich es ihr. Es war ein großer Schock für sie. Eine Menge Wut. Sie sagte, es täte ihr leid", sagte Evra. Mit der Veröffentlichung wolle er nun anderen Kindern in ähnlichen Situationen helfen.

Evra absolvierte zwischen 2004 und 2016 81 Länderspiele für Frankreich. In seiner langen Karriere kickte er unter anderem für Manchester United (2006 bis 2014) und Juventus Turin (2014 bis 2017). (sid/tme)

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