The French coach, Didier Deschamps, considered it “complex” that Kylian Mbappé can fulfill his dream of playing in the Paris Olympic Games this summer, especially due to his change of club after leaving Paris Saint-Germain.
“My experience as a player tells me that it is complex to chain two competitions in a summer without vacations and then start your championship with the club that pays you,” said the coach at the press conference in which he gave France’s last call-up. before the Eurocup.
Mbappé, 25, has shown on numerous occasions his desire to be one of the three players over the age of 23 who will make up the French Olympic team for the Games that will begin in his hometown on July 26.
Deschamps indicated that things are complicated by a player who “changes clubs and coaches”, as it seems Mbappé will do, who has informed PSG that he will not continue next season and who, according to various media, is negotiating with Real Madrid.
The coach recalled that in the last Tokyo Games most of the French clubs refused to give up their players to the under-23 team, knowing that they have that possibility because the Olympic event does not coincide with the FIFA dates, in which yes they are obliged to do so.
“Now the French clubs seem more sensitized because the Games are here, but I think that that does not concern the French clubs,” said Deschamps.
The coach recalled that the priority is the European Championship in Germany, in whose team Mbappé has a guaranteed place, and expressed his desire that by the time they concentrate on that competition it will already be known which three players over 23 years of age will make up the team. Olympic that Thierry Henry will call.
The coach assured that there will be “physical and physiological difficulties” for those who attend both competitions and recalled that the Eurocup will be played right after the regular season with the clubs “without vacations.”
“At some point they will have to rest, unless their clubs allow them to join at the end of September,” he said.
Deschamps wished Henry “good luck” in obtaining the permission of the clubs in drawing up his list which, he said, “has to be done with the aim of having the best possible team”, making it clear that the fatigue factor will be taken into account. .
The coach indicated that PSG coach Luis Enrique’s decision to take Mbappé’s playing time after he assured that he will not continue at the club next season may benefit him because he will gain freshness in the Euro Cup.
«Chaining many weeks with three games generates fatigue at the end of the season. The less there is, the better,” said Deschamps, who assured that he has no concerns about Mbappé’s physical condition.
In addition, he stated that he does not want to interfere in Luis Enrique’s affairs, but he joked: “If he can give Kolo Muani more minutes it would be good for me.”
Aware that Mbappé “always attracts a lot of attention,” Deschamps assured that the debates about his future will not affect the team’s concentration much, although he stated that he is waiting “for things to become official so that they are clear and definitive.”
The under-23 coach spoke in similar terms, announcing his last squad list before the Games.
«The problem is that it does not depend on us. The teams need the players from the beginning of the season and I think that foreign clubs don’t think about the Games like those here do, they think about them. There will be negotiations, but they have the last word,” Henry said.
Furthermore, he assured that things are “even more complex” when there are club changes. “You can reach an agreement with a club, but if the club then changes things are not certain,” he said.
Henry indicated that he would like to have “all the players from the senior team,” but acknowledged that that will be complicated.
Other footballers, such as Atlético de Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann or Milan’s Olivier Giroud, have also shown their interest in playing in the Games, but the youth team coach indicated that they also need the club’s endorsement.
Mbappé’s presence in the Games seems more difficult every day and, even, the player has been deflating that expectation.
In his last interview on this matter, published by GQ magazine a few months ago, he stated: «I’m at a point in my career where I don’t like to force things. If they let me play them, I will gladly go, if not, I will understand. EFE
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