In the absence of a second French representative in the running at the Club World Cup in addition to PSG (while there are two Portuguese clubs, FC Porto and Benfica, as well as Austrian training with Salzburg), many French internationals and former glories of the Blues will also be the meeting place for the United States (June 14-July 13). We will notably find the 2018 world champions Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud with the Los Angeles FC.
The MLS Californian club should not play this very first world of clubs at 32 participants. But FIFA has excluded the Léon club, whose owner also has Pachuca, another Mexican qualified for the competition, and organized a dam between Lafc and the American club. At the end of the suspense, on a discount of Olivier Giroud, Denis Bouanga qualified his team on May 31 (the night of the final of the PSG-Inter Champions League).
It's much better for Olivier Giroud to “La”. The 38-year-old center center has passed through during his first half-season in North America. He scored no goal in 14 MLS matches until elimination in the conference semi-finals. Then he started the 2025 season very badly. Little in sight in the game as in finish, he logically lost his place in the starting eleven. It is precisely as a joker that Giroud finally makes the nets tremble.
Giroud still goalscorer
As two weeks ago on the CF Montreal field, Olivier Giroud scored again when he got into play on Sunday to conclude the success obtained in front of Sporting Kansas City (3-1). Already a gender on a penalty spot and a decisive passer, the untenable Denis Bouanga served Giroud against the opposing goal and the former AC Milan player scored, of the right, the last goal of his team in additional time. His third goal in the league.
Giroud finds confidence just before meeting one of his former clubs, Chelsea, who is the first opponent of Los Angeles FC at the Club World Cup, in a week (Monday 9:00 pm in France, live on Dazn). Lloris and his teammates will also face the Hope of Tunis and Flamengo to hope to finish in the first two of the group and rise to the knockout stages of the competition.
