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Spain’s Aymeric Laporte: ‘People can say what they want, I don’t care. I’m here’

France-born defender on nationality switch, the message he says he sent Deschamps and a possible quarter-final against France

“I come from a very small, humble French town,” Spain’s first-choice centre-back says. Aymeric Jean Louis Gérard Alphonse Laporte rocks back in a big red chair and looks back on how the “dream” he mentions repeatedly came true, if not exactly the way he imagined it, and forward to what comes next. He talks about the journey that brought him here with a directness and determination that helps explain it all. “I’m very happy, enjoying every moment,” he says.

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