The top scorer of the French team still stands out in a very specific area.
At the age of 37, Olivier Giroud is enjoying a second youth in the jersey ofAC Milan. An indisputable starter with the Rossoneri, the 2018 world champion remains one of the most effective center forwards in French football, to the point of emerging as a credible starter in Blue for the next European Nations Championship.
It must be said that Giroud enjoys a special status in the French team since he remains to this day the top scorer in the history of the selection, with 56 goals scored. And there is one area where the attacker has no equal: aerial play. Valuable defensively on opponents’ set pieces, Olivier Giroud (1.93m) is also and above all the Blues’ best triggerman in the air.
Giroud, king of the air
Of the 56 goals scored by Giroud with the Blues, 16 were headed, a ratio of 29% – unprecedented in the France group, as Téléfoot illustrated in a report dedicated to the subject. “ Heading goals is the hardest thing sometimes, because you have to know your partner who is crossing well, know where he is used to putting the ball, know if you have to absorb the power from the center or give a good ‘blunderbuss shot’ (sic) as they say to give speed to the ball. It needs to be worked on, like any finish in front of goal. It’s a technical gesture!“, recalled the scorer at the microphone of TF1. It is not Kylian Mbappé who will contradict him.
