Thierry Henry knows the way to Clairefontaine, the training center of the French football team, perfectly. He went there repeatedly, as a player first, then as coach of the French Hopes team and the Olympic France team.
This week, the former arsenal player discovered Marcoussis, the “house” of the XV of France. “Last night, a French football legend, 1998 world champion and Olympic vice-champion 2024, did us the honor of his presence, tweeted the France Rugby account on Tuesday.
Thank you Mr. Thierry Henry for these moments of inspiring sharing spent with our #Xvdefrance
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It is common to see athletes from another discipline to visit the XV of France. And the Blues of Antoine Dupont will undoubtedly appreciate the words of a champion like Thierry Henry. But this little interview will have had the gift of setting fire on the side of the future adversary of the men of Fabien Galkié: Ireland.
Thierry Henry hated in Ireland
Thierry Henry and Ireland, it is obviously a complicated story. Perhaps the most controversial moment with the Blues of the player trained at AS Monaco: this hand, during a qualifying dam for the World Cup, which had brought the goal of William Gallas and qualified the French team of Raymond Domenech for the World Cup in South Africa. There was no Var, at the time, and the Blues got away with it. But Henry has become an enemy of the nation in Ireland.
So see him with the Blues a few days before a shock between the two countries has clearly reacted. Just see the comments to the post of journalist Murray Kinsella, who relayed a photo of Henry with the XV of France: “He knows one thing or two about how to beat Ireland with his hands”, “he came to lend a hand”, “he explained the profits of cheating to them”, “it may not be a good idea, the week of the match against Ireland, to bring a cheating that an opponent! »»
