2018, a new World Cup for France, 20 years after the 1998 triumph. Find the first appearances of the players in the 2-star jersey: Antoine Griezmann, Kilian Mbappé, Paul Pogba, Olivier Giroud…
Tomorrow night the OGC Nice will face the Girondins de Bordeaux in the quarter-final of the Coupe de la Ligue at the Stade du Ray. Training and interview of goaltender Hugo LLORIS rather confident and Sébastien ROUDET forward.
The French U23 team is in preparation for the European Championship in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Meeting with Yoann Gourcuff, 20 years old, the youngest of the group.
First goal of the season for the new Touraine striker Olivier Giroud, during the match against RC Lens counting for the French League 2. He gives his first impressions: "I was running after the 1st goal (...). Goals are a bonus, but it’s good that it happens as soon as possible in the Championship".
N'Golo Kanté, 22, has just been recruited at the Stade Malherbe Caen (SMC). In the opinion of the club’s supporters, he is promising... and for Patrice Garande, coach, "He has a physical and technical potential" and a good mind.
Interview with Adrien Rabiot, 17 years old. Player at PSG, he joins the French junior team. Francis Smerecki, coach of the French junior team, talks about an exchange of experience: "It will give him more playing time, another experience ... And what is also important is that it will bring us what it knows best".
At the ESTAC training centre in Troyes, meeting with Blaise Matuidi, recently selected to join the France under-19 team. Jean-Marc Furlan (coach) says of him: "He is an excellent defender. A very high level ball recovery ... leg speed to recover the ball and very impressive vertical recovery speed".
Raphaël Varane, trained at the RC Lens, was spotted at the age of 9. He says he is "imbued with the spirit of the club", a club where he grew up. And although he is interested in the big clubs, he continues to focus on his studies...