FOnce again, Rank Ribery has left behind one of the stories that only he can tell. The Frenchman, who has played thousands of battles on Europe’s greatest stages, recalled a particularly tense game against Real Madrid.
“I screamed at Carvajal and ended up slapping him,” he confessed with a laugh. “From then on, Ramos and Pepe decided to make my life miserable. Every time I touched the ball, they looked at me as if they wanted to kill me.”
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The former Bayern player said that this duel became a real war: “The match became a question of survival or not. Pepe was no longer trying to get the ball, he was chasing me.”
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Never one to shy away from a fight, Ribery admitted that night he understood what it meant to face the roughest of Madrid. “There was no truce with them. There was no respite for a second,” he said.
they later reconciled
Three years later, the two met again at another match between Bayern and Madrid, which brought attention to the incident again. Rather than reignite the controversy, Carvajal chose to close the wound once and for all. He shared an image on social media of both players hugging during the match, contrasting it with the 2014 slap. The sporting gesture symbolized reconciliation, turning an old episode of tension into a lesson in class and fair play.
