follow Thierry Henry’s press conference

“He’s an old-fashioned striker, you can play a little longer. He can keep the ball. He’s a boring striker to play against, he doesn’t let go too much, he goes at the last defender. He plays with his body, he’s good with his head, he scores goals, it’s still important a striker like that gives you another dimension in the game. He was voted player of the year at Crystal Palace it seems to me. not bad.”

“I don’t even think about that. With the staff, we set gold as our objective. Anything below…”

“I have a pretty clear idea of ​​how we are going to evolve, while hoping that it doesn’t sound the other way, also hoping that it works in the friendly matches.”

“He has a huge margin for improvement. What he is doing in the English championship and if he hadn’t gotten injured I think he could have scored 15 goals and 15 assists, he has that quality. He gets injured Quite often, you’ll have to be vigilant, but he’s a player of enormous quality.”

“We haven’t decided yet. There have been some discussions, we’re going to talk about it with the staff, see how things develop. The players let you know just by looking at them who is the technical leader, the one who takes the lead. speak and everyone listens, we’ll see what happens.”

“Zero. Nothing. Nothing will ever happen. We didn’t know yet (about the formalization of his transfer to Real), but I knew that the Real players were not going to be able to come. We tried, but to what extent. There wasn’t really any hope on my part that things would change. Personally, I took a sharp no, well brought out, very polite, but it was no (smile).”

“Rayan was not on the list of the previous gathering there was no problem a player can understand. If you look at the first list, it’s just normal. When players disappear, it’s as normal as ” he comes back to the group. What I like about Rayan despite everything people can say is that he loves the selection, he loves football. His love of football is still there. loved when he came back (in March) is that he did what he had to do every time he came back. A player like Barcola disappears, Rayan arrives.

“He had a few questions, it was normal and legitimate. When he realized the extent of what he could seek, from that moment on it became quite easy, without any problem.”

“It was really cool, it will be a little less cool, but this morning it was a little jogging, touching the ball, strengthening muscles. We’re going to touch the ball this afternoon and we’re going to build up our strength. For now , How’s it going.”

“You try to build your list based on how you want to play but at some point you have to adapt. You have to rethink what you have to do, it’s not easy. Having the list means you can move forward on d “other things especially on the tactical level.”

“Yes, we can go back to 98, and this famous list, these famous days, training at 10 a.m., training in the afternoon, see what you can do to get noticed. Yes, when I arrived yesterday that reminded me that I went through there and then I spent a good part of my childhood here.”

“I saw him clearly. It’s true that he always had a rather strange story between him and the A’s. I saw him clearly on that first day, happy to be there. I had a little discussion with him which will remain between him and me.”

“The withdrawals happened behind, unfortunately. There is a list at the start. We have to draw from this list. If this list becomes exhausted, especially at one position, it starts to become difficult. We targeted Loïc Badé to replace Maxime Estève. We’re trying to rebalance this team, we’ve made a lot of calls. We’ve reached an agreement with Loïc.”

“I’ll be honest with you, I knew it, but to experience it, it’s something different. It’s still not easy. The clubs have the right to say no, it becomes difficult. I walk with my phone because you never know when it will ring.”

“Before we begin, I think I already know where we’re definitely going to go, so I’m going to go ahead. Just to say that I agree with everything that has been said before about what you know well. I share what was said by the players. I can quote Kylian, Ousmane, of course the coach. What can block the extremes is to vote. I am against everything that divides and a little more for what can unite. .”

Olympic long jump champion at the Beijing Paralympic Games in 2008, Frenchman Arnaud Assoumani is among the 200 athletes who signed a column calling to vote against the far right in the next legislative elections. At the microphone of RMC Sport, he explained the reasons for his commitment and ensures that he will not shake Jordan Bardella’s hand if the boss of the National Rally becomes prime minister.

>> “I will refuse to shake Jordan Bardella’s hand,” warns Assoumani in the event of a victory for the far right

Faced with a new withdrawal from his list after Burnley’s late refusal to release Maxime Estève, Thierry Henry called on a new defender. The coach of the France Espoirs team called on his third player over 23 years old, after Lacazette and Mateta, with Loïc Badé (24 years old, Sevilla FC). The former Rennes player will join Clairefontaine and the group on Wednesday.

The day after the arrival of the selected players at Clairefontaine, Thierry Henry, coach of the French Olympic team, will speak at a press conference this Monday from 2 p.m.

He will probably mention the new announced package of Maxime Estève (not released by his club) but also the presence of Alexandre Lacazette, returning to Clairefontaine seven years after his last visit with the A.

The deadline is getting closer. While there are now less than forty days left before the start of the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, it’s time for rehearsals for the grand opening ceremony on July 26.

>> More details here: new rehearsal on the Seine to prepare for the opening ceremony

This Monday, the 56 boats which make up the second half of the fleet will complete the parade route in its entirety between the Austerlitz and Jena bridges. The boats passed under the Austerlitz bridge at 6:30 a.m. sharp and continued their route before turning around and traveling in the opposite direction.

These rehearsals serve in particular to measure the safety distances between the boats and the passages under the bridges, since the hundred boats expected for the opening ceremony will be used to transport the 200 delegations of athletes coming from all over the world for the occasion. But today, it is empty that the boats rehearse on the Seine.

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