{"id":49854,"date":"2018-07-16T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/16\/from-doubted-to-dominator-paul-pogbas-world-cup-evolution\/"},"modified":"2018-07-16T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:30:37","slug":"from-doubted-to-dominator-paul-pogbas-world-cup-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=49854","title":{"rendered":"From doubted to dominator: Paul Pogba\u2019s World Cup evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The midfielder came in to the tournament with concerns about his role in the team; he ended it dabbing and dancing as the heart of the France sideIf ever there was a time for Paul Pogba to dab and dance, to snapchat and sing to his heart\u2019s content without giving a soul with any sense the opportunity to even tut, this was it. With Moscow\u2019s Luzhniki Stadium his stage, he dabbed with president Macron. He dabbed with his mother and brothers on the pitch. He dabbed with an iconic 36.8cm piece of sculpted gold that means everything in football. A world champion, a scorer of a goal that felt result-defining in the final, a fulcrum for his team, a massive personality revered back home, the only thing missing was a hairdresser on hand to create a World Cup-shaped cut to mark this most glorious of moments.With Pogba in his exuberant element \u2013 the master of social media filming non-stop in the dressing room, on the bus, encouraging all sorts of celebratory flourishes with his band of World Cup-winning brothers \u2013 he felt so central to everything about this French generation. During the course of this tournament his status within the group has changed, and even for his own teammates it was difficult to articulate exactly what it was and how it happened. But everyone could feel it. \u201cI can tell you that Paul Pogba, I don\u2019t know how and I don\u2019t know from where, has become a leader,\u201d announced Adil Rami. \u201cHe proved it to us. He showed it. He\u2019s the one that showed the way. He was the strong man of the France team.\u201d Continue reading…
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The midfielder came in to the tournament with concerns about his role in the team; he ended it dabbing and dancing as the heart of the France sideIf ever there was a time for Paul Pogba to dab and dance, to snapchat and sing to his heart\u2019s content without giving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}