Olivier Giroud has not definitively given up on the France team. If he said goodbye to the selection and has no regrets about having retired internationally at the end of the last Euro, the Losc striker said he was ready to help if necessary.
“If there is a need to help out at a match or a gathering… It is not my style to refuse a selection even if I have announced my retirement. To be of service I could do ithe confided this Thursday to the microphone of RMC, however having no illusions: “There would really have to be a huge massacre to call me. There, five attackers are missing and the coach is not calling me. He understood that I had turned the page. »
The idea of playing in a fourth World Cup does not seem to displease him, however. “We can discuss, we’ll see but we’re not there yet,” he whispered. Making his return to the French team could allow him to improve his statistics, he who has 57 goals in 137 caps, making him the top scorer in the history of the Blues.
Olivier Giroud sees Kylian Mbappé reach the 100 goal mark
But the Isérois knows that his record hangs by a thread. With now 52 goals on the clock, Kylian Mbappé has made it a short-term objective. “I think I will beat him, but I don’t know when, maybe tomorrow (against Azerbaijan), who knows? »he said on this subject on Thursday at a press conference.
Olivier Giroud is therefore prepared to lose his record and also sees things big for Kylian Mbappé. “Obviously he's going to beat me, he still has at least five or seven years in the French team, if not more. So I hope he gets to 100 goals, that would be logical, he blurted. I just hope he beats him after Christmas, to celebrate it properly. »
