While Didier Deschamps will unveil his next list this Thursday, August 31, the coach of the France team could announce a little surprise.
The 2023-2024 season has barely started when the next international window is already fast approaching. The France team will host the Republic of Ireland at the Parc des Princes on Thursday, September 7, for the Euro 2024 qualifiers, before moving five days later to Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund to cross swords with Germany in a friendly match.
It is this Thursday at 2 p.m. that Didier Deschamps will reveal his list of players selected for these two meetings. A list with surprises? In its Monday edition, The Parisian argues that Warren Zaire-Emery, tenured in PSG’s first three L1 games and who has already bluffed Luis Enrique with high-flying performances from the top of his 17 years, is already “at the gates of the French teams”.
A place to take in the middle
While the new Espoirs coach, Thierry Henry, was present in the bays of the Parc des Princes on Saturday evening to attend PSG-Lens (3-1), the former Gunners icon must have been impressed by the midfielder’s performance. 17-year-old Parisian. The regional daily even considers that Didier Deschamps “must also keep an eye on him, ten months before Euro 2024”. Indeed, if the selections of Aurélien Tchouaméni, Adrien Rabiot, Antoine Griezmann and Eduardo Camavinga seem assured, there are still places to take in the tricolor midfield. And the “Titi” could have his card to play.
Zaire-Emery totally loose with the PSG ultras (video) https://t.co/qDCNYdTNMU
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Amazed by the level and maturity already displayed by the nugget from the training center of the capital club, Luis Enrique was rave about him after the meeting against Lens. ” I love it. He is an incredible player… He is 17 years oldsaid the Spanish coach at a press conference. He’s a player who really has everything to become one of the most important in the Paris squad and it’s a great chance for me to have a diamond in the rough like him at my disposal. He is a player who is both very hardworking and very technical. Our mission is to support him, and above all, to ensure that he stays at PSG for a very long time and thus brings a lot of joy to the supporters. I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but it’s very beautiful this communion between the fans and such a young player, who was probably among the supporters not long ago. »
