While the Miss France 2024 competition is due to take place soon, many athletes have been in a relationship with a beauty queen. This was particularly the case for Benjamin Pavard, his love story with Rachel Legrain-Trapani nevertheless turning short and being difficult to digest for the world champion.
The summer of 2018 will remain unforgettable for Benjamin Pavard. At only 22 years old, the native of Maubeuge became world champion in Russia and called for the first time to the Blues only a few months earlier, he was even a major player in this second coronation, indisputable holder in the right lane and hero of victory against Argentina thanks to an exceptional volley.
Everything then seemed to be smiling for the former Lille resident, who had formalized his relationship with Rachel Legrain-Trapani, Miss France 2007, a few months earlier. “We simply have the same group of friends. We’ve been together for a few months. We were discreet about our relationship to protect ourselves. But during the Blues’ match against Argentina, I couldn’t contain myself and at the final whistle, I jumped into his arms without thinking. the young woman told Gala, adding: “I have been so emotionally disappointed in the past. It’s difficult to rebuild yourself after a painful failure. But hey, maybe life gives me a second chance. »
But the romance between the former companion of Etienne Capoue or Ladji Doucouré and the French defender was not going to last. And not only because of the distance between Stuttgart, where he officiated, and Tourcoing, where the former Miss, mother of little Gianni, lived. “We were no longer on the same wavelength. However, I allowed myself to believe in it once again, but since the end of the World Cup, it had become more and more complicated. He is in his universe, I in another reality,” explained the former Miss.
But this breakup was painful. “ We remain normal people. We are angry and it has taken on quite dramatic proportions,” she admitted in hindsight. And if Benjamin Pavard was discreet on the subject for a long time, he admitted before the 2022 World Cup to having been the victim of depression following this romantic disappointment, the confinement which would follow aggravating the situation. “I got up, I had no appetite. I tried to keep myself busy, cook, watch series. But Netflix, it’s two minutes… I don’t like the word depressing, but it was,” he told Le Parisien, specifying: “In my head, it wasn’t right. At the beginning, you tell yourself that it’s nothing, that it will pass, but when you see that it persists, that you go to training and that you don’t feel good, you have to react. I’m human like everyone else, and even though I have a really nice house with a gym, I needed contact with others. »
Since then, the Milanese has been very discreet about his private life, even though it is the subject of numerous rumors.
