This is undoubtedly the best match that the men’s football tournament has offered during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It would have been magnificent if the French team had not lost it. Opposed to Spain in the final on Friday, Thierry Henry’s men came back from (almost) nowhere to manage to hang on to an extra time that they ultimately lost (3-5, aet). But could this defeat not have an external cause? Loïc Rémy has suggested the idea.
Consultant for France Televisions and commentator of this final alongside Fabien Lévêque, the former French international told a little anecdote while he was talking about the match and its side events, on the set of the show ” What Games! “With a sort of ritual set up between himself and the coach of the Blues.” We had a little ritual with Thierry who is also my childhood idol. In fact, before the first interview with Fabien, he took me in his arms. We had this ritual after his interview on the sidelines, that he took me in his arms. »
“It irritated me a little.”
But on this day of the Olympic final, things did not go as planned, explained the striker who played notably for OM and Lille: ” Unfortunately tonight, they didn’t allow me access to the field. I’m not superstitious at all, but there you go… It irritated me a little, let’s say. » A bit of superstition all the same for Loïc Rémy who nevertheless recognized that the Blues were facing the Spanish with already some well-identified problems.
” There is the opponent, but we were quite fragile defensively, we felt it from the start of the competition. We had a lot of luck. In this match, Spain was surgical. The slightest space, a small defensive error and they took advantage of it. (…) We came back well, we believed in it until the end, but it wasn’t enough. But they can be proud of themselves.
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