This is an administrative step to which few players on the France team have had to undergo. But without this document, it is impossible for Warren Zaire-Emery, 17, to make the trip to Greece, planned with the Blues on November 21, as part of the qualifiers for Euro 2024, for which Didier Deschamps’ troop is already qualified. Being a minor, the Paris Saint-Germain nugget had to provide parental authorization to be able to board the plane to Athens, the newspaper said. The Team.
The youngest player to be called up to the French team since the post-war period, thus breaking Eduardo Camavinga’s record established in 2020, Warren Zaire-Emery had to comply with the law of June 3, 2016, relating to the fight against terrorism. The implementing decree, published a few months later, on January 15, 2017, stipulates that “a child leaving the national territory without being accompanied by a holder of authority” is required to present “an authorization to leave the territory signed by a holder of parental authority.
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New legislation intended to combat the departure of certain minors to war zones, particularly to terrorist organizations. This document is also mandatory for all minors participating in a school trip abroad. Warren Zaire-Emery’s parents have, in theory, already had to sign this type of document twice this season so that their son can participate in Champions League matches in Newcastle and Milan, in the PSG jersey.
On the occasion of this international window, the Parisian midfielder could thus become the youngest player in the history of the French team since 1914. It could be this Saturday during the reception of Gibraltar in Nice or three days later in Greece. “It will not necessarily be the same players who will start the two matches with us,” Didier Deschamps indicated this Monday, thus opening the door to a first “WZE” cape under the jersey flanked by the rooster.