“I prefer not to do a World Cup and leave my place to a young person if it means coming and doing nothing. » In an interview given to The TeamKingsley Coman explains that, for him, playing in the next North American World Cup will not be a priority if he has to have a minor role in the French team.
An outing with quite surprising timing in that the 29-year-old winger, who now plays for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, has just been recalled by Didier Deschamps to face Azerbaijan (Friday, 8:45 p.m.) and Iceland (Monday, 8:45 p.m.), as part of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
Enough to make former Blues coach Raymond Domenech jump. “How can you say something like that? But let him be silent!thus threw the consultant on the set of the show The Evening Team. It's a nameless pretension, somewhere. He says: 'I come if I play, if I'm useful for something'. »
Kingsley Coman tackled by Raymond Domenech
“In addition, I could tell him in parentheses that, in a World Cup, the substitutes have an essential role. Because they are the ones who keep the depth of the team and who put pressure on others to maintain their intensityhe added. The replacements have a really real function. »
And Raymond Domenech concludes: “If he didn't understand it, it's because he didn't understand anything about the life of a group. » If Kingsley Coman has the merit of being honest, his comments still raise questions about his state of mind and his motivation. Not sure that the competitor Didier Deschamps appreciated this sincerity.
