Christian Karambe: photo, personal life, wife

In the late 1990s, the French national football teamit could be considered "golden". At that time its members were able to secure the conquest of such titles as world champions of 1998 and champions of Europe of 2000. Unfortunately, today footballers of those days are no longer performing because of the "retirement" age at sports standards. One of those who helped to reach the heights of the national team of that time was Christian Karambe. His sporting and ordinary life will be discussed in this article.

Birth

The future winner of the World and European Championshipsthe origin of kanak. He was born on December 3, 1970 in Lifu, on the islands of New Caledonia, which are located in the Pacific Ocean. The family was large, and for the father was an older brother named Marcelin.

Family secret

Immediately make an explanation: the real name of Christian Karambe, just like his brothers, does not call. This is done because in the Kanak tribe the name is considered the greatest value for a person. Therefore, it can not be disclosed, so that evil sorcerers do not bring upon the victim to attack.

In this regard, Kanaks with great joy givetheir offspring are French names that fit in the passport, but in the family circle they are not even mentioned. By the way, Karambe - this is not a surname, as many could think, but the name of his kind.

Beginning of football life

Christian Karambe started playing soccer at the age of 15. At first he played in different teams of native islands.

His family he left early enough andmoved to France, where the first two years he was looking for a well-paid job. In parallel, he actively trained in various football clubs. Too violent disposition has repeatedly hampered the guy in his life, but fortunately, for him it did not end with crime.

The first professional club

On a young, absolutely not afraid of powerfight and tough game of the athlete drew the attention of the leading coaches of the football team "Nantes". Thanks to them, Karambe immediately found himself in the elite of French football. And in a year Christian holds his first match for the national team. It happened during the qualifying round for the 1994 World Cup. In this case, he took advantage of his right to speak for France, as a native of one of the colony of the country.

In the club (and in the team) he plays in positionscentral midfielder. His main task was to form the beginning of his team's attacks and destroy the offensive actions of the enemy, and he performed the last work very harshly, for which he was repeatedly criticized both by specialists and the press. In 1995, he was part of the "Nantes" wins the championship of France and receives the title of the best football player of the year in Oceania.

Travel around Europe

In the same 1995, Karambe Christian moves intoSampdoria. In the Italian club, he spends only two seasons. And after his team reached the semifinal of the European Championship in 1996, the representatives of Real Madrid drew attention to it. This was familiar because the Frenchman was in conflict with the leadership of the Italian team and was eventually sold to the Spaniards for 2.5 million euros before the end of the contract.

For the next three years, Kanak was quite successful incareer achievements: he became the champion of the world and Europe in the French team, won the Champions League and the European Super Cup with the "cream". The player himself was at the peak of form, but ...

In the championship of Spain he started having problems. Christian was a destructive player, so he didn’t appear on the field very often, because his skills weren’t required by the team coach who built the game through offensive actions. Karambe began to resent about this and called (exclusively through the press) the club’s management to a conversation.

The world championship was not too much for himproductive in terms of gaming practice. On the field, he was only in the quarterfinals and semi-finals, and then not all of the allotted playing time. In these matches, he was changed by Thierry Henry.

Life on Albion

“Real” got rid of the extremely obstinate and unsociable canan in 2000. But the departure was on a positive note, because at the end of his career at the club, Christian became the second time winner of the Champions League.

His next club is English.Middlesbrough. The team he cost 2.1 million. Playing in the Premier League, Karambe showed the highest class of the game, but still it did not save him from changing teams. Having decided to earn some money, the British sold it already after the first season at Olympiacos for three and a half million, thereby adding to their budget well.

Leaving the team

Christian Karambe, whose photo is belowI finished my games for the main team of France quite dramatically and suddenly. All the fault was a serious injury to them during the final match of the Cup of Greece. It is because of her that he eventually did not make it to the 2002 World Cup, held in Korea. However, looking back at the faded and uncertain performance of the then current world champions, one can say with confidence that this was certainly for the best.

His last match in the national team, he spent against the Scots and defeated them with a crushing 5-0.

For the ten years that Karambe spent in the national team, he played 53 matches for it and scored just one goal. It happened in a match Romania October 11, 1995.

Love front

Christian Karambe, whose wife was for a long timea highly paid global model, has been married for several years. Unfortunately, in 2011, the couple divorced. The former spouse of the football player is the record holder of the Guinness Book of Records, as the owner of the longest legs in the world.

Adriana Sklenarikova and Christian Karembeu were the onesa pair, which is very often called in the people as “the beautiful and the monster”. They were married in 1998, after the victory of France in the home world championship.

There are no particular details about their family life. But there is one bright fact that happened a few years ago. The couple rested in the garden of their own home and played football. Christian in one of the moments (in all likelihood, purely automatically) hit his wife's legs with a flush. This situation led to the need to call an ambulance.

In all likelihood, Adriana is fullyfelt all the physical strength of his already former spouse on myself. But at the dawn of the 2000s, the question in one of the interviews: “How do you feel about the opinion that your husband plays tough enough?” - she said that she even liked this state of affairs.

Frenchman and Russia

Christian Karambe, whose personal life is no longerso already interesting to the public, has repeatedly been in the open spaces of the Russian Federation. Initially, he came as a player, recently - as a football specialist, analyst, commentator and functionary of the Olympiacos football club.

According to Karambe, he is very pleased thatI saw in Russia. Preparations for the 2018 World Cup are in full swing and in accordance with all standards and requirements. Also, the Frenchman has repeatedly stated that if he had participated in the voting at the elections of the head of FIFA, he would certainly have voted for the Russian candidate.

By the way, a remarkable fact: Karambe taught the history of Russian socialism and greatly admires Lenin's actions. According to the football legend, the truth is always for a man, not for a state.

As for the hairstyle, then Christian calls it part of his Polynesian culture. He likes his pigtails very much.