While the Blues ended a particularly complicated 2024 on Sunday, Didier Deschamps was once again singled out for the armband given to Kylian Mbappé.
Farewell 2024 and look forward to 2025. The trip to Italy on Sunday was in fact the last match of the year for the France team. A difficult year for the Blues. If they reached the last four at the Euro, their main objective in 2024, their performances clearly left something to be desired and the same was true of the results as evidenced by the defeats against Germany, Spain and L Italy or the matches against Canada and Israel.
The year will also have been turbulent off the field between the sudden retirement of Antoine Griezmann and the violent crisis of Kylian Mbappé this fall. And according to journalist Kevin Diaz, Didier Deschamps also has to deal with the great mistrust of his players. The fault lies in his choice to hand over the captain’s armband to Kylian Mbappé after the international retirement of Hugo Lloris.
Kylian Mbappé, the wrong choice
“ Didier Deschamps was part of the French team when he chose Kylian Mbappé as captain, he said at the microphone of RMC. A coach can make mistakes, select someone he shouldn’t have etc. But we must not underestimate the captain of the France team, especially at this time. Ceded it to the vox populi, ceded it to a triple in the final including two penalties and ceded it to the fact that Antoine Griezmann was not in his best form in the France team. »
“You have access to everything available to you plus one and the same thing for the future of Euro 2024he continued. If you have the captaincy of Antoine Griezmann, you will be rewarded with merit and then you will also be valued and arrive as soon as you have a pension or continue until the 2026 World Cup. rushed, made a bad choice, and this bad choice ruined him. »
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