It’s difficult not to feel dizzy when evaluating the last fifteen years of the French team. Double finalists in the last two World Cups, the Blues have come a long way when you have to look in the rearview mirror. A decade earlier, the selection was in fact experiencing the worst period in its history with the dishonorable episode of Knysna in South Africa. A long journey through the desert, but from which some players were able to feed themselves and bounce back afterwards, like Hugo Lloris or Adil Rami (the second had just been preselected for the 2010 World Cup).
In Téléfoot this Sunday, the two 2018 world champions returned to this dark period, to the point of having fun with it today. “There is nothing more beautiful than playing for the France team. When you look at the trajectory, I started with the worst with the period of Raymond Domenech, Knysna, Euro 2012…”analyzes Hugo Lloris, before being taken up by Rami: “(Philippe) Mexès always told me at the time: “we’re not good but what are we kidding”“. A sequence which logically provoked laughter from the two former Blues. We grant them: 14 years later, there is statute of limitations.
