Next summer, the French team will try to win the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. With an All-Star version team?
Unlike the last edition of the Olympic Games, the French team should present a very competitive team. And for good reason, there is no question for the FFF to miss this prestigious meeting at home and the ambition is clearly to align the best tricolor players in order to win the gold medal. As a reminder, the selections must be composed of players born after January 1, 2001 with the exception of three older jokers.
A very competitive French team at the Paris Olympics?
Sylvain Ripoll will be spoiled for choice even if it will still be necessary to convince the clubs to release the players since the Olympic Games are not a FIFA event and therefore the clubs have no obligation to release their players at this occasion. In its edition of the day, L’Equipe looks at the Olympic selection of the Blues for the 2024 Olympics and explains for example that a player like Khephren Thuram, born after January 1, 2001, ticks all the boxes to participate.
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The identity of the three “jokers” will be a real curiosity and a priori, unlike the previous Olympic Games where Gignac and Thauvin had been called in as reinforcements, big names should strengthen the tricolor ranks. Hugo Lloris, who has ended his international career, is ready to take up this ultimate challenge in case a goalkeeper is needed. Same thing for Raphaël Varane, who also ended his international career but who would see himself coming full circle by concluding his tricolor career with the Olympic Games.
Varane and Lloris with Mbappé at the 2024 Olympics?
The question of the presence of Kylian Mbappé at the Olympic Games will also arise even if for the PSG striker, the situation is more complex because unlike Varane and Lloris, the captain of the Blues will have played the Euro ten days before. . Antoine Griezmann also represents a real possibility of joker according to L’Equipe but like Mbappé, he will have played the Euro just before and nothing says that Atlético de Madrid will release him. If the vagueness is still important, Sylvain Ripoll should a priori be able to compose a team which will have absolutely nothing to do with the one he had painfully taken to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
