Jules Koundé and Kingsley Coman made a detour by the case press conference Friday afternoon, in Clairefontaine
The Sevillian spoke of his first steps in this gathering with the Blues
More stingy in words, Kingsley Coman did not fail to highlight the strike force of the France team as the Euro approached
The French Football Federation likes to take its audience on the wrong foot. By deciding to present in turn Kinglsey Coman and the newcomer Jules Koundé at a press conference on Friday at Clairefontaine, she clearly opted for the side of two rooms, two atmospheres. To our right, the King of Bayern, sir, one answer = one sentence, as stingy in words as a shy child who would have been forced to go to the board to tell about his summer vacation. On the other, the Sevillian defender, known to be extremely comfortable in the media exercise, who could spend half a day to answer questions from journalists.
Honor to the little blue, who therefore had a lot to tell us. Once past the traditional “I was very well received by the group”, the former Bordeaux resident made it clear that, new or not, there was no question for him to play tourists. To the question of a colleague who wanted to know if he had felt a little apprehension during the first collective training on Thursday, the man is playing fair. “Fear? No because I think that if I was called it is because I deserve it, that the coach trusts me and that he thinks that I have the capacities to evolve in the group, he said. I went there very naturally, trying to play my game, not to complicate things too much, to tie knots in my head. So far it's going pretty well. "
From there, you can imagine that now that he is here, Koundé aspires to more than simply be part of the group enlarged to 26. To be in the 23?
It is a goal that he clearly exploded: "We know that there will be three players who will not be on the scoresheet each time, that is part of the game. I try not to think about it too much. , to live in the present moment, to have fun and to stay focused on what I have to do in training to be able to enter this list (of the 23), it is my goal.
I am a fairly ambitious person, I come here with the aim of not being in the gallery.
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Coman and the "best team in the world"
The defender who goes up, who goes up, who goes up in La Liga was finally entitled to his little song question, classic for each newcomer arriving at the castle with the A's. "I sang Dinos, who is a rapper that I appreciate a lot because I love this style of music, ”he confided, forcing us to ask him THE killer question, about the cardboard controversy around Youssoupha, author of the anthem of the Blues for this Euro. In the end, communicating despite his young age, Koundé did not wish to comment on the hubbub of the TV sets, simply explaining that Youssoupha was one of the artists he appreciated for “his pretty lyrics” and his “words that make sense”. Unlike Jordan Bardella, the "Kound" liked the anthem of the Blues (us too, by the way).
Four paragraphs for the Sevillian, we will therefore respect the "Coman style" by making very short on the Bavarian. But there is not necessarily a need to say things when the words are strong and have meaning. This was the case with the Munich winger, who repeated four times that the France team had the "best attack in the world" and "the best team in the world" (on paper, you will understand) . But then, does this status have enough to put negative pressure on this group? “We have always been one of the favorites but it is sure that being world champion necessarily adds weight, he said. But it's not a pressure, most of the players are from the bigger clubs,they are used to winning trophies or being one of the favorites in every competition and that does not prevent them from having results. ”Of which act.
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