Ribery's touching story about facial marks

35-year-old has confessed his hard life, especially in childhood, in an interview with Canal+ Sports. In this interview, the footballer discovered how he had faced the pain since early years of his life, the newspaper Express broadcasts.

Ribery had suffered a serious head injury in a car accident when he was only two years old. He was rushed to the hospital and took 100 stitches to his head after the accident in his native France, Boulowgune-sur-Mer.

According to Yahoo reports, he had not had his seat belt, and this had caused him to crash the car's glass.

During his childhood, people looked intently at him and pointed to Riberys on the street, claiming that his marks were ugly. However, the Frenchman claims that they turned out to be positive.

“People told me: “Look what's in his face, look at his head. What's that sign? It's ugly! Everywhere I went, people looked at me”, said Ribery about Canal+.

They didn't see me because I was a good man or why my name was Frank or why I was a good footballer. They looked at me because of the scar on my face”

The shell gave me character and power. Because when you're a kid with signs like that, it's not easy. The way people look at you, their comments... I know my family has suffered for this” thing.

The people who talk about you are parents of other children, and that's a very bad thing. I never went to the room to cry, despite the pain of the great suffering”.

Ribery, who plays for Bayern Munichu, claims his sign had motivated him as a child.

The problem was that I was sitting in the back seat and I flew toward the glass. In a way, the accident helped me. As a child, I was motivated by”, Ribery added.

God gave me this thing that sets me apart. My prints are part of me and people have to accept me the way I am”