Last august Kingsley
Eat gave him, with a head butt, the sixth Champions
League from its history to Bayern
Munich, which was placed third in the historical classification of clubs that have raised the much desired ‘orejona’ the most times, tied with the Liverpool and just behind the Real
Madrid (13) and AC
Milan (7).
The young French footballer (24 years old) was the author of the only goal in the final against him Paris Saint-Germain (0-1), team of which Eat
He is a youth squad and with whom he played four games between 2013 and 2014.
It was the 59th minute of the game when the 25 times international for France took advantage of a perfect 'banana' of Joshua
Kimmich to beat Keylor
Navas with a head before which the former Costa Rican goalkeeper of the Real
Madrid.
At first glance a simple and routine action for a footballer, but to which Eat He is “afraid” of him, as he himself confessed in an interview with ‘Bild’:“ I'm always scared when I head off. I close my eyes, you can see it in the photos. It is something instinctive, a natural reflex … My colleagues do not stop making jokes about it ”, explained the attacker to the German newspaper.
I close my eyes
With or without fear, the reality is that Eat engraved his name in gold letters in the history of the Bavarian group thanks to his head in Lisbon: “The day before the game we practiced shots and I did not get a single header,” revealed the former of the Juventus of
Turin.