Defender Benjamin Pavard from German record champion FC Bayern Munich said he suffered from depression during the peak phase of the corona pandemic.
“I don’t like the word depressed, but that’s how it was. I opened up to others and today I feel a lot better,” the France international told Le Parisien newspaper.
“I’m a person like everyone else, and even though I have a super nice house with a weight room, I needed contact with others,” said the 26-year-old in retrospect, describing his emotional world in quarantine at the time: “I woke up and didn’t have anyone Appetite. I was trying to stay busy, cooking, watching series. But Netflix is nice for two minutes…”
It was difficult for everyone during that time of contact restrictions, “for me too,” said Pavard: “It wasn’t right in my head. At the beginning you tell yourself that it’s nothing, that it will pass. But when you realize that it’s stubborn that you go to practice without a smile, then you have to act.” In this difficult situation, however, he “grew as a man,” he said.