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REAL MADRID star Eduardo Camavinga has undergone an incredible body transformation.The Frenchman arrived in the Spanish capital during the summer of 2021 as a skinny 18-year-old.
Eduardo Camavinga was once a skinny teenager playing in FranceCredit: INSTAGRAM @CAMAVINGA @jordan13ajo
But since moving to Real Madrid the midfielder has bulked upCredit: INSTAGRAM @CAMAVINGA @jordan13ajo
But in just two years, he has bulked up and become a key man for club and country.
Camavinga came through the academy at Rennes and was dubbed a wonderkid due to his outstanding technical ability rather than his strength.
An old photo believed to have been taken in 2020 shows a thin-looking midfielder when he had just a handful of senior Ligue 1 appearances to his name.
He went on to play 75 times in the first-team as a scrawny teenager before completing his move to the Santiago Bernabeu for £34.4million.
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Since joining the 14-time Champions League winners, Camavinga has hit the gym and now boasts a muscular physique, making him hard to shrug off the ball and even more difficult to dribble beyond.
Real Madrid planned special training sessions for him so he could get more ripped and the 20-year-old even hired a personal chef and his own physiotherapist to ensure he kept on top of his fitness.
Camavinga admitted to struggling after a draining pre-season workout when he first became a Los Blancos player and he knew he had to improve physically and mentally.
He said: “In my first training session, I had a bad time physically. I think I almost threw up, we did a lot of things, but I adapted.
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“As I have a physical trainer and now I play a bit more, we vary our sessions.
“I told him that I had a tendency in the support runs that wasn’t necessarily the best, and so we worked on that.
“In particular, we worked on liveliness, with mental things at the same time to work on the senses.
“We worked on the senses to improve reactivity. Also to process information. In the midfield, players come from everywhere.”
Camavinga has won LaLiga and the Champions League since becoming more robust and he was part of the France squad that came runners-up in last year’s World Cup.
Eduardo Camavinga has 11 caps for FranceCredit: AFP More

RONALDINHO proved that he is still the ultimate showman after embarrassing a pitch invader during a Barcelona legends’ match.The now 43-year-old Brazilian World Cup winner lifted the lot during his illustrious playing career for club and country.
Ronaldinho showed he still possesses his magic as he went viral this weekCredit: Tik Tok
He left a pitch invader red-faced with a brilliant dummyCredit: TikTok
And despite now being retired for eight years, the superstar appears to have lost none of his magic.
The two-time Ballon D’or winner recently appeared for former club Barcelona’s Legends team when play was interrupted by one over-eager supporter.
The man raced towards the Samba ace and Ronaldinho could not resist having some fun.
Just as the intruder got near him, the ex-Milan and Paris Saint-Germain attacker left his admirer for dead with a great dummy after firstly giving him the thumbs-up.
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He firstly stepped straight into the man’s path as if he was going to block him off.
But he quickly hopped back in the other direction as a huge grin spread across his face.
The stranger reacted by trying to dodge the move but he was left looking foolish.
Security were quickly on the scene to apprehend the man, but it did not take long for Ronaldinho’s dummy to go viral on social media.
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“Ronaldinho skilled the pitch invader,” wrote one fan.
Another called him “a natural entertainer” as a fellow supporter hailed him as a “true magician”.
Barcelona Legends were taking on their counterparts from Maccabi Haifa in Israel this week.
And even though they fell behind, Ronaldinho and his star-studded pals bounced back to win 5-1, with the Brazil icon even getting his name on the scoresheet.
That was the team’s second game while out in Israel after they also recorded a 5-3 victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Legends.
After hanging up his boots following a stint with Fluminese, Ronaldinho returned to the game in 2018 for a brief stint with Indian Futsal side the Goa 5.
He retired as one of just eight players to have won the Champions League, World Cup and Ballon d’Or.
Ronaldinho scored 266 goals in 699 games across a sensational club career and he also received 97 caps for Brazil, netting 33 goals. More

LAMINE YAMAL has made history after becoming the youngest ever goalscorer for the Spanish men’s national team. The teenage sensation has burst on to the scene this season with Barcelona – a driving factor behind Ansu Fati’s shock loan transfer to Brighton.
Lamine Yamal, right, became Spain’s youngest ever goalscorerCredit: EPA
Spain cruised to a 7-1 win over Georgia in their EURO 2024 qualifierCredit: AFP

The 16-year-old has already begun breaking records after becoming Spain’s youngest player and goalscorer during a 7-1 win over Georgia in their EURO 2024 qualifying clash.
Aged just 16 years and 57 days old, Yamal has pinched the record for youngest appearance off of Barca team-mate Gavi, who was 16 years and 62 days old.
The exciting winger entered the pitch in the 44th minute, replacing Dani Olmo.
And in the 74th minute Yamal completed the Spanish route of Georgia with an emphatically whipped strike into the far corner of the net.
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However, while the feat is undoubtedly impressive, fans were left even more stunned to see Chelsea flop Alvaro Morata bag a hat-trick.
Atletico Madrid ace Morata, 30, was handed the captain’s armband for the game and suitably responded by netting Spain’s first, fourth and fifth goals.
Taking to Twitter, one fan said: “In ten years people are going to look at this guys CV and think he was actually good.”
A second wrote: “Who let Morata score a hat-trick? 😂.”
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Chelsea flop Alvaro Morata stunned fans as he bagged a hat-trickCredit: AFP
“Like…what a player he is for his country,” remarked a third.
A fourth typed: “I never understood this guy. He’s either R9 or RL9… there’s no in-between!”
It takes his national team tally to 33 goals in 65 games.
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BARCELONA have opened a shop to sell tufts of grass from the pitch of the Nou Camp.The LaLiga giants are selling the grass as the pitch was dug up as part of the Nou Camp’s renovation work.
Barcelona have started selling tufts of grass from the Nou Camp pitchCredit: Twitter
Some items are going for £340Credit: Twitter
The Nou Camp is currently being renovatedCredit: FC Barcelona
The work on the iconic football stadium has been going on since the World Cup in Qatar.
As a way of lowering the costs, Barcelona have been selling parts of the pitch to fans and souvenir collectors.
The prices vary on different products with the cheapest going for between £17 and £42.
These versions are sold at the new pop-up stand, while some options on the club’s website would have set people back a massive £340.
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The most expensive item comes with the same amount of grass but it does include a frame and some details about the grounds.
Barcelona are currently dealing with financial issues with many fans suggesting that is the reason behind the shop opening.
One fan Tweeted: “A poverty franchise that has mortgaged its future so much that they have to resort to selling grass clippings to tourists…”
A second commented: “Barcelona have hit an all-time low. This is as pathetic as it gets.”
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A third said: “This is dumb, and yet I kinda love it.”
A fourth said: “How the mighty has fallen.”
A fifth declared: “Anything for a bit of cash.”
A sixth added: “Broke club selling anything at this point.”
While another joked: “Show me you’re broke without telling me.”
While the Nou Camp is being renovated Barcelona are playing their football at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.
They will play the entirety of the season at the ground in southwest Barcelona.
The stadium – which is the home of the Catalonia National football team – can seat up to 55,000 people. More