Faulty on the second Greek goal on Tuesday, Jules Koundé spoke of the small bridge of which he was the victim. A gesture considered by many to be a humiliation for a defender.
Is there any worse humiliation for a footballer than a small bridge? “Dribbling is deception, it’s making people believe that I’m going to go to one place to get to the other side. While the little bridge is the big deception”explained Martin Caparros, Argentinian journalist and writer, adding: “We cancel the adversary, we erase him. In Argentina, there is of course a sexual connotation. It’s “I’ll put it between your legs.” »»
Aligned in the left lane of the French defense on Tuesday in Greece, Jules Koundé suffered the horrors of a small bridge. And the humiliation was all the greater for the former Bordeaux player as Greece scored their second goal in the action, with the Blues only trailing a magnificent strike from Youssouf Fofana at the start of the last quarter. time to avoid defeat.
Questioned on the set of Clique, on Canal+, Jules Koundé returned to this action, revealing that he had been caught in the crossfire. “I have two things going through my head at that moment. It’s that the ball, he pushes it a little far and I hesitate to intervene hard. And then I see that I’m going to be a little late and I decide to hold back and those are things not to do. This is what happens when you don’t decide, when you have two ideas in mind and you don’t do either, it allows your opponent to take the advantage, so it’s always regrettable.”he explained.
This action earned him numerous criticisms on social networks. Attacks to which the Barcelona player says he is accustomed. “It would be a lie to say that we’re not looking. I think a lot of people say that but it’s not always true. We watch but we’re used to it, he confided. It’s something we live with, even for fourteen years. So obviously, we watch, we read, but we move on. I mean, the most important thing is the teammates, what the coach thinks and we move forward like that. »
