Madrid (AFP)
"Show what I'm worth": loaned to Real Madrid with an unofficial status of lining, the French goalkeeper Alphonse Areola promised on Friday to seize every opportunity to shine to get play time and ensure his place in Blue in the Euro 2020.
During his presentation to the press at the Santiago-Bernabeu stadium, the 2018 world champion admitted that he was leaving behind the holder of the post, the Belgian Thibaut Courtois, but that he was hoping to change things as soon as he he would be given a chance.
"If there is a hierarchy that is well established, it's up to me to answer now when it will be given to me," said the Frenchman (26 years), dark suit and diamonds in his ear.
"My goal is to give the maximum to training every day, to be ready when given the opportunity to show it to me to be good every day and show what I'm worth" , he argued.
Without having convinced the leaders of Paris SG, his training club, the goalkeeper joined the prestigious Real Madrid on the last day of the summer transfer market, for a loan of a season without option to buy.
The risk that he has very little playing time in Real, where the substitute goalkeepers are usually content to play the King's Cup, has nonetheless ticked the French coach Didier Deschamps, who considered this prospect "problematic" for Areola in view of the Euro-2020.
"If I do not have a lot of playing time, in selection it will be complicated," said the goalkeeper.
"I'll do whatever it takes to be ready, if things happen to me, to be there, and if I do not have a lot of playing time, well, that's the way it is. me to give the maximum when it will give me (play time). "
Impressed by the winners of the Real, winner of 13 C1, Areola said see in this loan the opportunity to "grow a little more" and aim, perhaps, a European coronation next spring.
"Why not, I saw the trophy room, it's impressive," he said. "The fact of seeing all these Leagues champions face me, it gives this desire to go to seek others and to go as far as possible with Real Madrid", which will begin its European campaign next Wednesday ... facing the Paris SG.
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