Farewell 2024 and look forward to 2025. The trip to Italy on Sunday was in fact the last match of the year for the France team. A difficult year for the Blues. If they reached the last four at the Euro, their main objective in 2024, their performances clearly left something to be desired and the same was true of the results as evidenced by the defeats against Germany, Spain and the Italy or the draws against Canada and Israel.
The year will also have been turbulent off the field between the sudden retirement of Antoine Griezmann and the violent crisis of Kylian Mbappé this fall. And according to journalist Kevin Diaz, Didier Deschamps also has to deal with the great mistrust of his players. The fault is his choice to give the captain’s armband to Kylian Mbappé after the international retirement of Hugo Lloris.
Kylian Mbappé, the wrong choice
“ Didier Deschamps lost the French team the moment he chose Kylian Mbappé as captain, he said at the microphone of RMC. A coach can make mistakes, select someone he shouldn’t have etc. But we must not underestimate the captain of the France team, especially at this moment. He gave in to the vox populi, he gave in to a hat-trick in the final including two penalties and he gave in to the fact that Antoine Griezmann was not in his best form in the France team. »
“You had a guy who perhaps had more than a year and a few months for the next deadline which was Euro 2024he continued. Eighteen months of captaincy for Antoine Griezmann, he deserved it and then, you would have assessed with him whether he stops as was the case at the start of the school year or whether he continues until the 2026 World Cup . But he rushed, made a bad choice, and that bad choice ruined him. »
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