France has published a video on social media showing the French team celebrating Oliver Giroud’s 52nd goal for the national team. Thanks to the goal scored in the round of 16 in the match against Poland won 3-1 by Deschamps’ team, the Rossoneri striker overtook Thierry Henry in the ranking of the best goalscorers ever in French history.
“A LEGENDARY RECORD, celebrated by the whole group. Top scorer in the history of the Azzurri, Oliver Giroud received a 5️⃣2️⃣ flared shirt, as well as the number of goals scored since November 2011 (117 appearances for the national team)!”, the message published and addressed to number 9.
Before the start of the World Cup, its ownership was by no means obvious, given the competition with the reigning golden ball Karim Benzema. Due to the latter’s injury, however, it fell to Oliver to take responsibility for leading the French attack and scoring 3 rarely. At the age of 36 the former Chelsea player still appears to be decisiveas demonstrated with the Rossoneri shirt.
The man of the derbies, the man of the Scudetto and who knows if he can become one too the man of the World Cup. Certainly one more person to support him is mister Pegswho yesterday said he was rooting for his France.
