Zaire-Emery, the shock

Warren Zaire-Emery continues to break precocity records. The PSG midfielder is preparing to enter the history of French football. At only 17 years old, he was called up by Didier Deschamps for the French team’s next two matches, against Gibraltar and in Greece.

If he plays against Gibraltar, he will become, at 17 years eight months and 11 days, the youngest French international since Félix Vial, who was 17 years two months and 15 days when he faced Luxembourg on October 29, 1911, surpassing Eduardo Camavinga, aged 17 years, nine months and 29 days for his first selection in September 2020.

This summons did not surprise Christophe Galtier, his first coach at PSG. “When we were preparing for the season, I had a list of young people that we had to see. Warren quickly joined the group and with the staff we said to ourselves: damn, but this kid is 16 years old and has the attitude of a player who has already played 200 or 250 games.”confided the former Parisian coach.

“After two or three months, you realize that your big players like having him on their team in training, he continued. When you put him with Kylian Mbappé, Neymar, Leo Messi, Sergio Ramos or Marco Verratti, they didn’t frown when they saw him with the same color of vest, far from it. »