The captain of the France team, who will once again lead the Blues to Qatar, experienced a family tragedy at the start of his career which he overcame thanks to football.
Pink October has been in full swing since the beginning of the month. This communication campaign intended to make women aware of breast cancer screening probably speaks particularly to Hugo Lloris. When he was only 21 years old, the goalkeeper of the France team indeed lost his mother, carried away by the disease. A heartbreak for the one who was then playing in Nice.
“My mother died in April 2008, she was sick for several years. She exuded such strength that we said to ourselves ‘she will once again succeed in overcoming the disease because she had done it before,’ he recently confided in front of the cameras of M6, adding: ‘ We never prepare to lose our loved ones. “The loss of this mother” fighter, determined to impose herself in a patriarchal environment “Still constitutes an intimate wound for the Spurs goalkeeper.
By his own admission, football has been a great support. Just three days after the disappearance of his mother, the future world champion held his place in the goals of OGC Nice against Lille, in Ligue 1. This tragedy nevertheless almost changed the course of his career. “A lot of questions then arise in my head: do I stay in Nice for another year to live this moment with my brother, who was 12 at the time, and my father, to overcome this ordeal, he explained. But we were focused on the present moment in order to prepare for the future and on their own, they said to me ‘No, you have to go, you have to continue living.’ It’s the best way to pay tribute to my mother, to continue and to succeed in what I do. In any case, that’s what she would have wanted me to do. »