Monday’s tackle – The future will be bright for the Blues!


CHRONIC. If the France team did not win the last World Cup, there are many reasons for hope for the future, with Mbappé in the lead.





By Adrian Mathieu

After the loss of their world title, the Blues will try to console themselves with the Euro in Germany in a year and a half.
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Si you thought of the 123e minute of France-Argentina between two toasts of foie gras at Christmas, we can’t blame you. It’s hard not to dwell, a week after this opportunity for Randal Kolo Muani in the final moments of the 2022 World Cup final. But if the Blues ended up losing their crown to the Argentines, despite a prodigious hat-trick from Kylian Mbappé, the future of this team looks bright. With an ideal calendar, the French team will be able to turn the page and forget the torments caused by Messi & Cie.

The next Euro is barely 18 months away…

The deadlines will quickly follow one another, thus avoiding thinking too much about this evening with big regrets on the side of Doha. In a year and a half will take place the next Euro, a competition which is still missing from the list of Didier Deschamps on the bench. The qualifications arrive in March, including a serious test against the Netherlands in Saint-Denis. And if we project a little further, in three and a half years, the 2026 World Cup will take place on the other side of the Atlantic. In this sport that goes so fast, the recent disappointment will gradually give way to a fierce desire to bounce back.

We can never remember it enough, but reaching this last step of a world with so many executives and potential holders absent was a small feat. If Karim Benzema has decided to turn the page, the gradual returns of Pogba, Nkunku, Kanté or Maignan will certainly do good for the men of Didier Deschamps. And despite all his packages, France can count on a player apart on this planet: Kylian Mbappé. We saw it in Qatar, the PSG striker has a real gift. While he just blew his 24e candle, he is not going to stop on such a good path and will continue his quest for records. New asserted leader of the Blues, Mbappé has already returned to club training, proof that he does not intend to feel sorry for himself.

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And we haven’t yet mentioned the very young French generation that the whole of Europe is snapping up. Some will be a little tight for the next Euro in Germany, but there is no doubt that we will very quickly hear about Mathys Tel (Bayern Munich), Désiré Doué (Stade Rennes) or Warren Zaïre-Emery (PSG) in this decade. ). While some selections, like Belgium, are struggling to regenerate their pool, and others are sorely lacking in attacking talent like Spain, the Blues do not experience this type of problem. With the number of talents who have not yet had their chance in selection A, we are even in an era of abundance, bordering on indecency. It remains not to be overconfident, as was seen during the last Euro with the early elimination by Switzerland in the round of 16.

READ ALSOMartinez, Mbappé…: does chambering have its limits in football? And in all this, what about the coach? If the name of Zinédine Zidane regularly returns to the front of the stage to one day take the lead of the Blues, Didier Deschamps clings to his chair. The game of fools between the two 98 world champions should not deteriorate the atmosphere around the France team. Zizou knows that his time will come on this coveted bench. It remains to be seen whether he will be able to take his troubles patiently for a few more months, or even a few more years. Anyway, no matter who will fly this plane, we are calm enough today to say that it will always arrive safely.






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