The coronavirus has wreaked havoc across the sporting landscape. Starting this week a number of athletes from multiple sports tell us how their worlds have been turned upside down and how they are dealing with the situation, both as sportspeople and in their personal lives.

The thing is, I was the first of our team to shave their head. Paul (Pogba) saw it and shaved his as well, and his son’s. Now Anthony (Martial). It’s crazy. I didn’t want all my head shaved but I made a mistake and had to cut everything. Now I am Grade 1 but I was completely bald before, like Roberto Carlos. It was a bit shocking for me.

It’s been very different to normal being at home. I’m getting up early because our baby, Maria-Victoria, who is two months old, is getting up early. We wake up early and sleep late but that is because we have to listen to the baby.

By 7am we’re up with her before I go training in the gym I’ve got here in my house. They gave us a programme for running and gym work. We already had an individual programme so I just have to continue doing it at home, so I keep doing the things that I was doing at the club. Running-wise I am trying to keep the same distance and intensity that we do in training but it is difficult. I have a lot of footballs at home but no pitch. I can just do a few things in the garden but nothing much.

With my team-mates we’ve only done challenges together, we did the toilet-paper challenge and we all sent it to Jesse (Lingard) and I think he’ll drop it soon. But with training we’ll try to do something on Friday together. We’ll train together and see how it goes.

Food is quite easy as we have a chef from the club and she is allowed to cook the food and bring it to my house to heat up and eat. Later in the day I’ll go running and make sure I keep fit, then maybe watch a movie or play on the PlayStation. Then sleep. Every day we’re doing the same.