Didier Deschamps is focused on Euro 2024, but the French coach has not forgotten his counterpart in the Espoirs, Thierry Henry. With an announcement about it.
The summer of 2024 will be particularly busy for sport and football in particular. While Euro 2024 is looming, for which Didier Deschamps’ French team qualified easily and quickly, the Paris Olympic Games will also be on the program. And this time, it is Thierry Henry’s Espoirs who will take the stage. The coach will have the opportunity to call on three players over the age of twenty-three and he secretly hopes that Kylian Mbappé can be one of them. In the meantime, Didier Deschamps gave him a first answer.
The boss of the first team was on the set of TF1, as part of the launch of the Yellow Pieces campaign (January 10-February 4), an operation of which he is sponsor. When concluding the interview, Didier Deschamps did not escape a question about Kylian Mbappé and the potential presence of the Paris Saint-Germain striker during the Olympics. The Basque’s response did not take long, and it was clear. “ If he wants to, he can. » And the one who led the Blues to the title of world champion in 2018 to evoke the Hopes in a more global way, in direct link with the Olympic Games.
Henry can rejoice
“ Obviously, the objective for all of us is to ensure that Thierry Henry can have the most competitive French team possible. » There is therefore a strong chance that Kylian Mbappé will be made available to the former glory of Arsenal, if they call on him. There will then be two other “joker” places remaining. It remains to be seen who will be elected. Antoine Griezmann, brilliant in recent months with Atlético de Madrid, could be one of them.
