Cédric Bakambu is experiencing a bizarre situation. The 28-year-old Congolese striker, a former Villarreal player, is confined to France, in a Paris apartment with his wife and son. He arrived during the break in the Chinese league, where he plays for Beijing Sinobo Guoan. Later, the pandemic exploded and the battering ram did not return to the Asian country. Now, the crisis there diminishes and one thinks again about returning to activity. Today he received a communication from his team that requires him to appear before March 28. The intention in China is to return to activity and start competing in early May.
Bakambu lives the confinement in Paris with his wife one month after leaving accounts. She would not be able to accompany him and, while in Europe the pandemic is at its peak, she would have to travel to a country that is in the last phase of it. It puts the scream in the sky. “It is scary. Now I have to go and leave my family, it is not normal. I have to go alone, leaving my wife pregnant, to leave a country with a pandemic to go to another where this whole issue is still ending,” affirmed the player to the newspaper L'Equipe.
The forward does not stop thinking about the situation in Europe and having to leave his partner alone before giving birth again. “My biggest fear is that the virus has reached France, where I am confined with my wife and my son. Having to leave them behind to undertake a journey so far is not pleasant. I have to leave them, they cannot come, and I do not I have no certainty of knowing when I will be able to see them again, with my wife a month after giving birth, it is very difficult, “says the battering ram in L'Equipe. In addition, another circumstance occurs. Upon entering China, he will have to go through an isolated period of quarantine.