The Liverpool defender hopes his story of being displaced during the Bosnian War will promote greater understanding around the experience of refugees
LOVREN: MY LIFE AS A REFUGEE
Dejan Lovren runs his palm down his face, the realities of that harrowing time still so real, still so raw.
The pain never dissipates and the memories of being rendered a refugee through the Bosnian War resurfaces when he watches countless others, in similarly unthinkable situations, sacrificing everything for the smallest shot at survival.
“When I see what’s happening today, I just remember my thing, my family, and how people don’t want you in their country,” the Liverpool defender reveals in an LFCTV documentary, which tells his powerful, poignant story of having to flee Kraljeva Sutjeska as a three-year-old, with his Croatian parents Sasa and Silva, to escape the first genocide in Europe since World War II.