“I had fun”, Tchouameni is over the moon!

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By: Manu Tournoux

He will remember this Thursday, December 10 in Budapest for a very long time. With the absence of Kylian Mbappé and the retirement of Antoine Griezmann, Aurélien Tchouameni inherited the captain’s armband of the France team during the match against Israel.

A match which ended in a victory with a score of 4 goals to 1 as part of the 3rd day of the Nations League. Interviewed at the microphone of TF1 after the game, the evening captain Aurélien Tchouameni did not hide his satisfaction but also his pride at having taken the 3 points but above all at having been captain.

“II had a lot of fun wearing this armband with all the brothers. The most important thing is what we showed from start to finish. We managed to be effective. We all made the effort together. It’s rare for the coach to be happy at half-time. We’ll have to rest, there’s another match coming up that we’ll have to win. We remained united, we managed to build momentum offensively and defensively. »

Captain again against Belgium?

Aurélien Tchouameni scored points in this new role as captain this Thursday evening against Israel. However, the Real Madrid midfielder is not sure of being renewed as captain this Monday against Belgium.

In conference Didier Deschamps and Tchouameni had suggested that the captain could be different against the Red Devils. However, it is not at all impossible to see him again with the armband. Response during the national coach’s next press conference.

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