At 38, Olivier Giroud is a bit stopped. His end of career in the United States is not a dream for the moment. At least on the ground. After having farewell to AC Milan and European football, then bowed out in the French team with Euro 2024 in Germany, the top scorer in the history of the Blues joined Los Angeles FC, where his former captain and friend Hugo Lloris was already playing. Giroud started in MLS in September 2024 but it has been since the disaster. He still has not scored with the Californian training in 17 championship games.
Giroud is desperately looking to open its goals goals with the Lafc at the start of the 2025 season, after three Major League Soccer matches and as many Concacaf Champions Cup meetings. The 2018 world champion, who is not always aligned in the eleven by Steve Cherundolo, worries the followers. Perhaps his “holidays” in Paris, to be celebrated at the Stade de France by the tricolor public before the quarter-final return of the training of Didier Deschamps against Croatia, rebosted him.
The Isérois (he grew up near Grenoble) may have the opportunity to find a smile during the next MLS games. The regular phase is only in its infancy with six days disputed. But the Los Angeles FC especially hopes a determining giroud during the poster of the quarterfinals of the North American C1 against the Inter Miami of Lionel Messi, on April 3 and 10 (in the “City of Angels” first then in Florida).
Giroud facing a former club?
The LAFC could also compete in the Club World Cup in two and a half months! FIFA is launching its brand new competition formula with 32 participants in the United States, one year from the (real) World Cup scheduled in Canada, US and Mexico. The international body recently excluded Leon, the Mexican club being held by the same group as the training of Pachuca, and now considers, according to The Athleticto play a dam between the LAFC, unhappy finalist against Léon in Champions League 2022, and the club American, the best classified club in the Concacaf. A dam, moreover, fairly improbable since the Club World Cup should have logically had to welcome the previous winner of the North American C1, that of 2021, namely the Tigers of André-Pierre Gignac (who had scored the victorious goal against … the Lafc!).
In any case, Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud could compete in the same competition as Antoine Griezmann (now left to stay at Atlético), Ousmane Dembélé or Kylian Mbappé. Giroud would find Chelsea from June 16 in Atlanta in group D. The 2012 French champion with Montpellier evolved at the Blues from 2018 to 2021 and won the Europa League and the Champions League with its second London club. The Hope of Tunis and Flamengo are the other two teams of this pool of the World Cup.
