Raphaël Varane shared a hilarious anecdote about his arrival at Real Madrid in an interview with AS . While still living with his mother, he received a call… which he thought was just another one of the many calls he was getting at the time. Except that on the other end of the line was Zinedine Zidane . “The phone was ringing non-stop at that point. I answered it and suddenly, I recognized Zidane. I was scared and told him if we could talk later, I was busy,” he recounted. Panicked, he ran to tell his brother, who immediately replied: “You hung up on Zidane? What did you do!” Zidane, in fact, replied: “Yes, yes, of course…”
Varane also explains that he met with José Mourinho before signing to ensure the club's genuine interest: "I went to Madrid to speak to him in person… I left thinking, 'I would give my life for this man.'" Recruited at just 18 years old , the central defender would ultimately play 360 matches for Real Madrid, winning four Champions League titles (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018), three of them under Zidane. A monumental Madrid story… that began with a phone call that almost didn't happen.
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