Not long after, Raphinha and Camavinga were friends. The football players who will meet this Saturday in the Clásico, with Barça and Madrid respectively, They met in Rennes in the 2019-2020 season, in which they achieved a historic feat for the French club.
Raphina arrived at Rennes in the summer of 2019, from Vitoria Guimares, and France was his first big show. He left, on the last day of the 2020 market, he was transferred to Leeds for 21 million euros.
Camavinga started in the second team and made his debut on April 6, 2019against Angers. Also on the 2021 market deadline, he was transferred to Real Madrid.
In the season that Raphinha and Camavinga met, Rennes, who had just won the 2019 French Cup against PSG, managed to finish third in the League with qualify, therefore, for the next edition of the Champions League for the first time in the history of the Breton club. A very important event, among other things, because Ligue 1 ended on March 8 due to the Coronavirus.
In that season, Raphinha played, as a striker, a total of 30 games in all competitions and added 7 goals and 4 assists.. And Camavinga played 36 games and scored a goal and distributed two assists
