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23rd March 2022
12:09pm GMT

"Completely, and several times in my career," the midfielder revealed. "I knew I was (depressed), but you don't talk about it. Sometimes you don't know you're depressed. You just want to get away from everyone, to be alone. But those are unmistakable signs."
"I refocus on my family, my friends, and that desire to win matches or to progress does not go away despite everything," he added. "I don’t want negative moments to make me forget everything I've achieved, but it's not necessarily easy and, when I can't do it on my own, I talk a lot with ‘Tonton Pat’ (Patrice Evra), former players who have gone through this, because they will understand you immediately. "My (psychologist) can be my best friend, my wife or my son. Talking, being listened to, bringing out all that rage and depression that’s eating away at you... I need all that."Patrice Evra would have first met Pogba when he was in the first team at Manchester United and the midfielder was coming through the academy. They later became teammates at Juventus and played for several years together with the France. Evra defended Pogba in a Daily Mail interview, earlier this season, saying he got an inordinate amount of stick from some United fans and ex-players:
"I am not defending him just because he is like my little brother, but people are harsh on him. Paul is just a player in that team. He is not United."[caption id="attachment_253943" align="aligncenter" width="800"]
Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba pictured together at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, in 2015, while Juventus teammates. (Credit: Getty Images)[/caption]
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