In the late 1990s, the French national football team could well be considered “golden”. Its then composition was able to secure the conquest of such titles as the 1998 world champions and the 2000 European champions. Unfortunately, today the players of those days are no longer playing due to the "retirement" by sports standards of age. One of those who helped to reach the heights of the national team of that time was Christian Karambe. His sports and everyday life will be discussed in this article.
Birth
Future winner of the World Championships and European descent Kanak. Christian Karambe was born on December 3, 1970 in Lifou, on the islands of New Caledonia, which are located in the Pacific Ocean. The family was large, and for his father was an older brother named Marceline.
Family secret
We will immediately make an explanation: Christian Karambe, like his brothers, does not name his real name. This is done because in the Kanak tribe, the name is considered the greatest value for a person. Therefore, it is impossible to disclose it, so that the evil sorcerers do not bring the victim to attack.
In this regard, the Kanaks with great joy give their offspring French names that fit into the passport, but they are not even mentioned in the family circle. By the way, Karambe is not a surname at all, as many might have thought, but the name of his kind.
The beginning of football life
Christian Karambe started playing football at the age of 15. At first he played in different teams of his native islands.
He left his family early enough and moved to France, where for the first two years he was looking for a well-paid job. In parallel with this, he actively trained at various football clubs. Too wild temper repeatedly interfered with the guy in his life, but, fortunately, for him the crime did not end there.
The first professional club
Leading trainers of the Nantes football team drew attention to a young athlete who was absolutely not afraid of power struggle and tough games. Thanks to them, Karambe was immediately in the elite of French football. A year later, Christian holds his first match for the national team. This happened during the qualifying round for the 1994 World Cup. In this case, he exercised his right to speak for France as a native of one of the country's colony.
In the club (and in the national team) he plays in the position of a central midfielder. His main task was to formulate the beginning of his team’s attacks and destroy the enemy’s offensive operations, and he carried out the last work very hard, for which he was repeatedly criticized both by specialists and the press. In 1995, as part of Nantes, he won the French championship and received the title of best footballer of the year in Oceania.
Traveling in Europe
In the same 1995, Karambe Christian goes to Sampdoria. In the Italian club, he spends only two seasons. And after his team reached the semifinals of the European championship in 1996, representatives of Real Madrid came to his attention. This was familiar, since the Frenchman was in conflict with the leadership of the Italian team and was eventually sold to the Spaniards for 2.5 million euros before the end of the contract.
For the next three years, Kanak was quite successful in terms of career achievements: he became the world and European champion in the French team, won the Champions League and the European Super Cup with cream. The player himself was at the peak of form, but ...
In the championship of Spain he began to have problems. Christian was a player of a destructive plan, in connection with which he appeared on the field infrequently, since his skills were not required for the coach of the team building the game through offensive actions. Karambe began to be indignant about this and called (exclusively through the press) the club management to talk.
The World Cup for him was also not too productive, in terms of gaming practice. He visited the field only in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, and that is not all the allotted playing time. In these matches, he was replaced by Thierry Henry.
Life on Foggy Albion
Real Madrid got rid of an extremely obstinate and non-living kanak in 2000. But the departure was on a major note, since at the end of his career at the club Christian became the second time the Champions League winner.
His next club is the English Middlesbrough. The team, he cost 2.1 million. Playing in the Premier League, Karambe showed the highest class of the game, but still this did not save him from the change of team. Having decided to make some good money, the British sold it after the first season at Olympiacos for three and a half million, thereby adding to their budget quite well.
Leaving the national team
Christian Karambe, whose photo is shown below, finished his games for the main team of France quite dramatically and suddenly. The fault was the serious injury he received during the final match of the Greek Cup. It was because of her that he did not end up on the 2002 World Cup, held in Korea. However, looking back at the faded and uncertain performance of the then reigning world champions, we can confidently say that this was, of course, for the better.
He spent his last match in the national team against the Scots and defeated them with a crushing score of 5-0.
In the ten years that Karambe spent in the national team, he played 53 matches for her and scored just one goal. It happened in a match by Romania on October 11, 1995.
Love front
Christian Karambe, whose wife was a highly paid global model for a long time, was married for several years. Unfortunately, in 2011 the couple divorced. The ex- wife of the football player is the champion of the Guinness Book of Records, as the owner of the longest legs in the world.
Adriana Sklenarikova and Christian Karambe were the couple that people often call “beauty and the beast”. They got married in 1998, after the victory of France at the home world championship.
There are no particular details about their family life. But one bright fact is known that occurred several years ago. The couple rested in the garden of their own home and played football. Christian at one point (in all likelihood, purely automatic) from all over hit the legs of his wife. This situation led to the fact that I had to call an ambulance.
In all likelihood, Adriana fully felt the full physical power of her now ex-spouse on herself. But at the dawn of the 2000s, to a question in one of the interviews: “How do you feel about the opinion that your husband plays hard enough?” - She said that she even likes this state of affairs.
French and Russia
Christian Karambe, whose personal life is now not so interesting to the public, has repeatedly been to the expanses of the Russian Federation. Initially, he came as a player, recently - in the role of a football specialist, analyst, commentator and functionary of the Olympiakos football club.
According to Karambe, he is very pleased with what he saw in Russia. Preparations for the 2018 World Cup are in full swing and in accordance with all standards and requirements. Also, the Frenchman has repeatedly stated that if he participated in the vote in the election of the head of FIFA, he would certainly cast his vote for the Russian candidate.
By the way, a remarkable fact: Karambe taught the history of Russian socialism and greatly admires the actions of Lenin. According to the football legend, the truth is always up to the person, not the state.
As for the hairstyle, Christian calls it part of his Polynesian culture. He really likes his pigtails.