Football Changed My Life – Evra

Manchester United legend, Patrice Evra has come out to open up on his harrowing experience of dealing drugs and begging on the streets.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he sold drugs, begged in front of shops and even went to the dustbin to pick cold Big Macs when his dad left his kids in the house at a very young age.

Evra added that football saved his life because the sport simply transformed his memories from bad to good.

His words, “Selling drugs. Begging in front of the shop, for money, and working in a TV shop. One is not true.”

“I didn’t sell TVs. The other two are true. I was like 13.”

“Sometimes even at midnight, when they throw away the cold Big Macs, we were going into the bin.”

“I think when my dad left it was like chaos.”

“The football saved me.”

“When I was 17, I travelled to Italy. I remember when we arrived and we were sitting all the time and they were serving us food. I got into my room.”

“I wore a tracksuit and I called my Mum and said, “Mum, here is like heaven, people are serving us food, it’s like two forks in one side, two knives in one side.”

“That’s my best memory.”