Varane indicated that he had missed games this season after asking for an assessment of his condition.
He stated to L'Equipe: I don't know if I will live to be 100, but I know that I have damaged my body."
On this season, he suggested: During a match, I performed a series of headers, and the days that followed, I felt abnormal fatigue as well as severe eye fatigue, and I reported to the staff that I was not fit to play.
They strongly recommended that I not play, I took a test from a doctor, the results of which I passed on to the staff, which meant that I did not play the following match. And when I felt better, I started training again.
But if I hadn't asked to take these tests, I probably would have been lined up a few days later. And to be honest, I still feel bad that I didn't play the next game because of a migraine."
He added about an incident with France in 2014: I finished the match but I'm in 'autopilot' mode. If someone had spoken to me at that time, I don't even know if I would have been able to respond."
He continued: I was not in my normal state and so I was taken care of. I had lost weight because I was dehydrated, I was out of shape but played because it was a World Cup quarter-final."