Lyes Bouzidi reacts to the news of Raphael Varane retiring from football after a successful career with Lens, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Como, and debates just how good Varane was for club and for France.
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"Varane retiring from football after a successful career with Lens, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Como"
BRO PLAYED 20 MINUTS FOR COMO AND GOT INJURED, WARRA CARRER FOR HIM 🤣…
Great video for a legend of the game loved watching this
Easily in the top 3 best French CBs of all time with Blanc and Desailly (or top 4 if you want to say that Thuram was a CB and not a RB), never in the spotlight for Real Madrid but he by far the best defender on the French teams whenever he played
Not gonna lie, I never rated these La Liga defenders that played for Barca or Madrid that much. They always had a cushy job when you look at their attacking players, managers and squad depth. Same goes for Varane, overrated as heck, just like Pique.
Don’t gas up the FA cup final we all know City were still drunk from celebrating 4 in a row
An absolute rolce royce of a defender…if you could sacrifice a player's fitness for another he's defo the one…i remember him dominating barca home and away Spanish super cup 2012…that was the eyetest
That Varane Umtiti partnership was an all timer. Shame injuries hindered them (mostly Umtiti)
Thank for everything Varane 🫡
that french pronunciation goes crazy, you gotta do a stream where you just crack open a french dictionary and go with it
Lyes you cooking with these timely vids
One of the all time greats and easily in my top 5 favourite cb ever. Forever a legend ❤
icon or hero lads?
Propaganda, players were getting injured more often 20+ years ago than today’s game.
Varane was a good CB, but people need to relax with their shouts. He is nowhere near Top 5 CB of last decade. Thiago Silva, Chielleni, Godin, Ramos, Bonucci, Van Dijk, Hummels, Pepe were all better than him.
Varane is a legend 🤍 Pure class
Ten Hag out incoming. Get your copium ready
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Pound for pound the perfect cb beautiful man as well ❤❤
I see people say that players should shut up and play the game because they earn a lot of money. They seem to miss the fact that no pay check can stop you from getting injured. I would rather see less games with fit player than more games with players pushing their limits and potentially ending their careers
4 UCLs and a World Cup, Merci Raphael 🤍
He's won everything. He's mega wealthy. No need to keep punishing his body
Absolutely love the conversation you have started, it needs to be had, footballers are HUMANS too
Meanwhile James Milner is still 10 years away from retirement
HOT TAKE: Varane should’ve won the 2018 Balon D’or
7:46 6 year drought.
10:28 there should be no doubt who was the leader of the French back line in 2018 and 2022. Raphael Varane was the boss and he marshalled that defence brilliantly.
10:45 and you need that sometimes. That why he complimented those guys like Sergio Ramos, Dayot Upamecano, Lisandro Martinez. You need a calming influence alongside an aggressive front foot defender. And Varane was perfect for that role.
16:44 look at Diego Maradona and Ronaldo. Both of them were subject to brutal tackles in the 80s and 90s and the overall physicality of football back then. And their career at the top level was done by 30. I think they have done a better job of protecting them on the pitch but it will be negated with these unnecessary competitions. Maradona suffered a near career ending ankle injuries in 1983 because of vicious tackles from Athletic Bilbao's Andoni Goikoetxea. He was only 24 years old. Ronaldo was getting pulled, hacked and kicked by defenders in La Liga and Serie A of the 90s which led him to take injections to his knees and also led to 2 patella tendon tears due to his body's refusal to take the beatings anymore. And Ronaldo was not slim like Neymar, he had broad shoulders and thighs to withstand the punishment.