Four Four Two - UK (2022-07)

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KING OF THE JUNGLE

At any normal club, the final few weeks of

the season are a time to conserve energy, apart from

the odd player of the year do. At PSG, they send their

players to Rwanda to stare down gorillas.

Sergio Ramos didn’t exactly have the finest debut

campaign in France, rarely playing because of injury,

then being part of a defence that conceded three in

an end-of-season draw at Strasbourg.

PSG’s solution was the sort of idea that Priti Patel

would no doubt approve of: they got him as far away

from Paris as possible, packing him off to Africa with

team-mates Keylor Navas, Julian Draxler and Thilo

Kehrer – although three of the quartet were back in

the squad for the next game against Troyes.

The three-day trip was part of a link-up with Visit

Rwanda: Ramos & Co went full David Attenborough,

dressed for the great outdoors as they headed to

the Volcanoes National Park, home to the mountain

gorilla. Understandably wary of the hairy creature’s

reputation for ill-discipline, the gorillas kept their

distance from Ramos – they’d seen what he did to

Mo Salah in the Champions League final that time.

MEAn WHILE In ...

...Rwanda, Sergio Ramos shrugged off a difficult season in the obvious way – with a spot of gorilla trekking

WEIRD

WORLD OF

FOOTBALL

12 July 2022 FourFourTwo