Heading for Bosnia-Herzegovina for Bleuets. Friday, at 6:30 p.m., the players of the France Espoirs team will actually play their second day of the Euro 2025 qualifiers near Sarajevo. Then comes the Cyprus reception, in Grenoble, on Tuesday October 17 (6:30 p.m.). History of moving towards qualification, and gaining confidence with less than a year now before the Paris Olympic Games. A deadline on which the current coach of the under-21s, Thierry Henry, does not wish to fully plan. “Because now is not the time,” he justifies in the columns of The Team this Tuesday, October 10.
“No, I didn’t talk to Kylian about all that”
“I, coach of the under-21 team, can’t talk about the Olympics, it’s a lack of respect for the generation that is here today, because I don’t know who will be part of the under-21 team. 23 years old, he continues. They are two different teams. And I am coach of both. It’s as if after a match with the French team someone came to talk to me about Arsenal. There, we are going to play against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cyprus. When the preparation for the Olympics arrives, in March, my speech will be different, it’s obligatory”, assures the 1998 world champion, who nevertheless takes the opportunity to confide his “dream” with a view to these Parisian Olympics.
“Already, there is a nuance between the objective set and what I want. My dream, so that you understand better, is gold. I told the president. Now, how? C “That’s another debate. Go ask the Brazilians what their dream is? Same. I don’t dream of finishing second. The big boss, Aimé Jacquet, sold his dream to everyone in 1998. Afterwards, he you have to be able to achieve it. And to achieve it, it’s important to visualize it. So you have to visualize the gold”, estimates Thierry Henry, inevitably questioned about the Kylian Mbappé case. So, will the star of Paris Saint-Germain and the A be present for the big meeting of Paris 2024? The ex-Arsenal legend points out: “No, I haven’t spoken with Kylian about all that. Even if, like everyone else, I heard that he would like to do them”, slips- he mischievously.
To sum up
Heading for Bosnia-Herzegovina for Bleuets. Friday, at 6:30 p.m., the players of the France Espoirs team will actually play their second day of the Euro 2025 qualifiers near Sarajevo. Then comes the Cyprus reception, in Grenoble, on Tuesday October 17 (6:30 p.m.). History of moving towards qualification, and gaining confidence with less than a year now before the Paris Olympic Games. A deadline on which the current coach of the under-21s, Thierry Henry, does not want to fully plan. “Because it’s not the time,” he explains in the columns of L’Équipe this Tuesday, October 10.
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