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Original Title: [Le Monde] Raphaël Varane on being 18 at Real Madrid: “I was alone, training all the time and hardly playing. I felt like my dream was slipping away. On the pitch, I was totally focused. But afterwards, I didn’t want to go home. It was a depression. I no longer enjoyed anything”