“I was made to feel very welcome. It is only happiness so I take advantage. »» Rayan Cherki's first steps in the French team go well. Summoned by Didier Deschamps for the Final Four of the League of Nations, who will see the Blues face Spain Thursday evening in the semi-finals, the former hopeful player (21 years old) is now looking Clairefontaine with a new eye.
It is with pleasure and ambition that he approaches this last square of the competition in Germany, where he hopes to honor his first cape among the A. “We have an exceptional workforce, perhaps the best in the worldhe says in an interview with
The team. We are ready. These are two very important matches, a title to go get, so we will prepare as it should. »»
If the French team has always been an objective for him, a doubt has long survived on its international future because of the Italian origins of his father and Algerian of his mother. Did he hesitate to join the Nazionale and the Fennecs?
“To be frank and sincere, I have never had official contacts with the two selections”assures the young Lyon offensive midfielder.
The development of Rayan Cherki
“Before I started my career, in 2019, my father was able to meet Djamel Belmadi (the former coach of Algeria), via a joint friend, during one of his passages in Lyon. But since then, the only people who have been able to tell me about it, these are two or three players that I know personally, and a few weeks ago Paolo Rongoni (the physical trainer of the Greens), which I rubbed shoulders in Lyon. »»
“But I have never spoken with a coach or president of another federation, none even tried to join me”swears Rayan Cherki. A development that was necessary and put an end to the many rumors concerning him. Place now in the field, in the jersey struck with the rooster, therefore. The FFF unveiled it, it will be with number 25 in the back.
