Combining business with pleasure: this is how we all idealize our coaching career by playing Football Manager. However, any technician, and even more among the breeders, will be able to confirm the complexity of the task. Often singled out by supporters of the beautiful game for its lack “of ambition”, Didier Deschamps has never hidden prioritizing the result. Which was also successful for him, as recalled by Antoine Griezmann, present at a press briefing this Thursday. “Defending is boring to watch, but that’s how it makes you win”, recalled the fourth most capped player in the history of the Blues. This Friday, Ibrahima Konaté also defended this style of play in an interview with RMC.
“I think that in the selection, we don’t have much time to work on a game idea: we play in different clubs, with different ideas, different compositions, so come and readapt and advocate a unique game with the Blues , it is complicatedconfided the Liverpool defender. It’s true that sometimes it’s a boring game to watch, but in a Euro, it’s not the beauty of the game that counts. I remember the 2018 World Cup semi-final against Belgium, a super strong team. In the end, they complained that they were better. But who cares in the end, who won? And what do we remember? The winner. If we can take the beautiful game, we also take it, of course, because we give pleasure to the spectators, and even us, as players, it does us good to see a beautiful action. But tomorrow, if I have a choice, I choose to take the wrong game but move on to the next round.»
