No goals scored in the game, but a place in the last four of Euro 2024. The Blues are not the stuff of dreams this summer in Germany but are definitely there, like the English, in accordance with their status as favourites. On the game of the French team, it’s like that. We play like that, those who are not happy, it’s not my problem “, said Ousmane Dembélé last week. Same story from Youssouf Fofana: ” Personally, I don’t care. Totally. Because in the end, we are semi-finalists… »
These words obviously did not fail to provoke a reaction. Didier Deschamps’ pragmatism, while certainly effective, does not allow for all the excesses in front of the microphones. As a player, I didn’t care about style, so I’m not going to lecture today’s kids who are happy to win. I’m just saying that in speech, you can’t say “we don’t care” “, said former international defender Eric Di Meco on RMC.
“It’s very clumsy,” Petit notes.
” When Didier says “people can change the channel”, it bothers me because yes, guys really do change the channel.continues the winner of the 1993 C1 with OM.
When Dembélé says “we don’t care”, does he realize that part of his salary is paid by idiots like us who watch the matches? He doesn’t care that we don’t enjoy ourselves, but when you don’t enjoy yourself, well you don’t watch the matches anymore, you don’t pay the channels that broadcast these matches anymore. We must never forget that this sport is also a spectacle and that the spectators pay the artists who play, like in the cinema. »
World champion in 1998 and European champion two years later with the Blues, Emmanuel Petit also points out this at least nonchalant tricolor speech. The criticism affected us as players of the French team, we didn’t give a damn. Aimé Jacquet used it, Roger Lemerre too, through some very bloody press reviews in particular to prick us in our pride and our ego. In communication, it’s very clumsy, like this nonchalance and this disrespect for the people who follow you. “And to conclude all the same: ” In ten years, if France wins, everyone will have forgotten all that. As a player, of course I prefer to win with beautiful play, but today who plays beautiful play apart from Spain or teams that are already eliminated? »
