As the Paris Olympic Games approach, Thierry Henry looked back on his painful experience of missing the event when he was still a young player.
Appointed last August as head of the France Espoirs team, Thierry Henry knows his big goal for 2024: the Paris Olympic Games. In order to best prepare for this deadline, the FFF organized a preparatory meeting on Friday in the presence of around thirty representatives of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs, in particular to convince these teams to release their players for this global event.
On this occasion, Thierry Henry spoke and spoke about his painful experience, he who was deprived of the Sydney Olympics. “The Games are a dream. I’ve never been able to argue about it. Mr. Domenech, here present, can testify to this, I cried the day Italy beat us (a 1-2 defeat in 1999 which deprived France of the Euro Espoirs 2000, qualifier for the Olympic Games in Sydney, editor’s note) », Confided the former Gunners striker.
“For me as a child, the Olympics were Marie-Jo”
And to add: “For me as a kid, the Olympics were Marie-Jo (Pérec). Being able to make people dream is extraordinary, and highlighting French football too. There is a lot to prepare for before the competition with many uncertainties regarding the players likely to be affected. At club level, you have constraints, we know this and take them into account. » The message got through.
