The story of "crazy" Rüdiger, the new head of Madrid: the origins in Sierra Leone and childhood in Berlin

• News Madrid signs Rüdiger

The grass of the

already has the first piece of

2022-2023:

(Berlin, 1993).

The white team announced this Thursday the signing of the

, who is

, who will

end his contract with

and whose signature will begin the

in

.

Achieved the

, the

and the

the announcement of the departures of

and

, Rüdiger's official status and

in the coming days will complete the initial cycle of the Madrid market.

At

, Rüdiger, who signs for

and will earn between

euros net, arrives at Madrid in the best moment of his career, both on a sporting and personal level.

This season he has played

and has scored

with the Stamford Bridge team, but he has also lived some important months on a vital level because he has managed to "

", according to himself, with his origins in

.

country

in 1991, fleeing the civil war and coming to Germany, where she met Matthias.

They settled in

, in the neighborhood of

, and little Antonio was born and raised there.

A busy adolescence

He started out playing football for

, a club based near his home, until at the age of nine he made the leap to the slightly larger SV Tasmania Berlin.

From there, three years later, he went to

, where he spent only a year before leaving for

, also in Berlin.

The great opportunity would come from

, who bet on him for two and a half seasons before being discarded.

It seemed that the clouds were closing in on his future, but he found the place he needed at

, in whose first team he made his debut at the age of 18.

Rüdiger had a complicated childhood and adolescence, with many changes of environment and discipline problems, having in

that, finally, solved his life.

When he turned professional, his parents were finally able to return to Sierra Leone, where they were really happy, while the youngster got to know Europe through the ball: first

, then

with

, now

...

In January this year, Rüdiger took advantage of a break in the

to make the trip of a lifetime to

.

There he had sent

and

during the pandemic, but he could not really build something that would change the lives of his family and his acquaintances.

Now yes.

The creation of his foundation has been "the most important" of his season, as he said a few weeks ago.

"It's my second home," he added.

The locker room, in favor

On

he will be presented and on July 8 he will meet his new teammates in

, where he will start training with

's new defender

.

of the German, undisputed in the 2021 Champions League champion, will give fresh air to a defense that he has suffered from injuries this season.

In the locker room, in addition, the reaction to his signing has been positive.

He is

, like

coincided with him at Chelsea and

on the German national team, and everyone praises his competitive attitude on the pitch and his hilarious craziness off it.

His races on the grass like a colossus, legs high and a pigeon chest, raised the laughter of the public at some times of the year.

"

", he has admitted on occasion.

The white shirt is not unknown to Rüdiger, whose idol was

, for whom he played much of his adolescence as a striker.

He also looked at

, the protagonist of his first football shirt and a legend in Africa.

The European champion has a new leader.

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