Hugo Ekitike’s package for the 2026 World Cup will perhaps free up a place in the France team. And just over two weeks before the announcement of the Blues list, Jérôme Rothen suggests an unexpected name to Didier Deschamps. That of Esteban Lepaul, who is shining this season at Stade Rennais.
“He’s the top scorer in our championship, a new kid. It will refresh, there is no profile like that »says the consultant on RMC.
“Respect him at his true value, he did not score 18 goals by chance and he will perhaps allow Rennes to make the Champions League. Who would have believed it? In the 26, it’s not surprising”adds the former French international. An opinion that Christophe Dugarry does not share at all. For the 1998 world champion, the Rouge et Noir striker has no chance of being selected by “DD” for the North American World Cup (from June 11 to July 19).
“He has zero references”
“Do you think its value is international at the World Cup with the armada ahead? Do you honestly think that would be doing him a favor?he replies to Jérôme Rothen. You have to have experience. He has zero references, he doesn’t play the Champions League. Once you said that he is the top scorer in Ligue 1 – and you are right, that is respectable – but it is not disrespectful not to take a kid who has no selection. »
For him, the attackers usually summoned by Didier Deschamps “already have experience”and Esteban Lepaul is therefore starting too far. “It’s not because he’s the top scorer in Ligue 1 that we should take him, it must be uncorrelated. It will be (Randal) Kolo Muani or maybe (Florian) Thauvin, but it will not be Lepaul”“Duga” slice. See you on May 14, in the 8 p.m. news on TF1, to finally know the identity of the French Globalists.
