Barely more than a year after the World Cup in Qatar, French international Randal Kolo Muani is still branded.
This moment will forever be engraved in the memory of Randal Kolo Muani: his failed face-to-face against Emiliano Martinez, the Argentina goalkeeper, in the final of the 2022 World Cup. A painful memory that will always haunt him.
A failure that will mark him for life
In an interview for World Eleven, the Paris Saint-Germain striker confided that he will always be “the guy who missed the face-to-face in the World Cup final”. He is aware that this failure will follow him throughout his career, even after he hangs up his boots. ” That’s life. Even when my career is over, people will still talk to me about it. »
“If I had scored, we would have won the World Cup”
The former Frankfurt and Nantes player is convinced that if he had scored, France would have won the World Cup. “Obviously I’m still disgusted with this failure. In addition, after this face-to-face, the match ends. If I had scored, we would have won the World Cup. That’s crazy. I don’t even have the words to explain this. It’s just incredible. »
“It was impossible to do”
As for the critics accusing the 2022 world vice-champion of not having passed the ball to Kylian Mbappé during this action, Kolo Muani affirms that his teammate had never spoken to him about it and that it was impossible, at the time, to make the pass to him.
“I would have brought the World Cup back to France. I would have been the ‘star’, and honestly, I don’t think I would have liked it, said the Bondynois. It can’t be easy to bear. (…) People say: ‘he could have given it to Kylian’. Already, Kylian has never spoken to me again about this action. And at the time, it was impossible to do. Football is not played with slow motion, only VAR could have seen that…”
