favorite football friendships: paul pogba and raphaël varane “we're a bit like fire and water in a way, but with paul," says varane, "we have similarities. pressure is a source of motivation for us. it was a challenge to play right away. we wanted to rock it to stay, to show that even at nineteen or twenty [in 2013-14] we could have our place in the team. the group was focused on qualifying for the [2014] world cup but we wanted to go to brazil, too.“














