After two years without France (Panama and Ukraine won against Mexico and Côte d'Ivoire), the Blueberries rise to the final of the International Espoirs festival, now called Maurice-Revello tournament (in honor of the creator of the Toulon tournament in 1967). The competition is no longer played in Toulon but in several cities in Bouches-du-Rhône.
After the XXL success of Saudi Arabia in front of Denmark during the first semi-final (3-4), the French U20 team came to the end of Mexico (3-1), Friday in Salon-de-Provence. The tricolor training led by Bernard Diomède opened the scoring by the Nantesis Louis Leroux (14th), but the sorting equalized at the start of the second period by Karol Velazquez (48th).
It was ultimately the star scorer of this 2005 generation, Steve Ngoura, attacking trained in Le Havre and now at the Cercle Bruges, who gave his team the advantage of a fairly incredible goal (67th). Back to goal, the 20 -year -old made two sombreos before finishing in force at the Tri Guardian, Emmanuel Ochoa (no kinship with Legend Guillermo Ochoa).
The French team against Saudi Arabia
Dehmaine Tabibou Assoumani, another FC Nantes player, scored the third goal of a superb free kick (89th).
The Blueberries, with Elyaz Zidane (the youngest son of Zinedine Zidane) and the Parisian Ibrahim Mbaye (but without Senny Mayulu, retained by PSG for the World Cup of Clubs), will face the U23 Saudis led by Luigi Di Biagio on Sunday afternoon, still in Salon-de-Provence. France U20 won 2-1 against Saudi Arabia 10 days ago on the first day of the festival (2-1). Ngoura had marked on penalty and Zidane of the head.
