After the announcement of his list this Thursday, Didier Deschamps spoke at length about the reasons for the summons of Zaire-Emery.
This was the main attraction of Didier Deschamps’ list and the press conference that followed: the first summons of Warren Zaire-Emery in French team. After an excellent start to the season with the Paris Saint Germain and XXL performances week after week, the one who was still captain of the hopes will this time enter Clairefontaine through the front door and discover the A team alongside Kylian Mbappé, Antoine Griezmann and the other stars of the Blues.
Deschamps praises Zaire-Emery
Obviously, the Blues coach could not escape questions concerning the 17-year-old player, who became the youngest in history to be called up with the Tricolores. “Because of what he has achieved with his club PSG since the last meeting, he is here with us because he has all the qualities to be at a very high level, even if, obviously, there is competition at his position “he explained first.
🇫🇷 First selection in A for Warren Zaire-Emery! 🇫🇷
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DD then built on the maturity shown by the Parisian environment when he was only 17 years old. “ What he is capable of achieving with his club at his young age already demonstrates enormous potential and maturity already demonstrated at just over 17 years old. It’s obviously an important step in his career, everything is going very quickly for him but he also has this ability to be able to assume all these responsibilities”he said.
For his part, the new French international received a visit from some of his PSG teammates in his room, who came to celebrate the big news with him in a video published by the capital club on Instagram.
