Florian Thauvin was greeted by hundreds of fans when he arrived in Mexico, where he will play for the Tigers, with Gignac.
He will be officially presented this Friday in front of 11,000 fans before joining his team in the preseason.
One of the reasons for his departure to Mexico.
Fanfare, media hustle and bustle… French midfielder Florian Thauvin had a rock star arrival at Monterrey airport (northern Mexico) before joining his new Tigers team. a yellow mask bearing the image of the Mexican club covering his face, the former Marseillais took more than a minute to make his way through the ten or twenty meters separating the door of the airport from a minibus from the club .
Here is the arrival of Florian Thauvin at Monterrey airport, awaited by several hundred people 🔥pic.twitter.com / ayMmxGjkFx
- FĂştbol mexicano FR (@ligamx_fr) June 11, 2021
A tide of cameras, dictaphones and cell phones stalked his first comments.
André-Pierre Gignac, his former partner at OM who became an idol of the Tigers, "is my big brother", "we will do our best for the team", simply reacted Thauvin, 28, at the microphone of a channel local television.
Hundreds of leaping fans chanted songs to marching band tunes.
A huge banner in the club's yellow and blue colors showing him in a France team jersey for the World Cup in his hand had been deployed.
His first steps in Mexico were broadcast live on an account of supporters of the Monterrey team followed by more than 200,000 people.
"I can not guarantee any player that he will start"
On Friday, some 11,000 fans are expected at Florian Thauvin's official presentation at the Estadio Universitario, home of the Tigers, where he will also give his first press conference on Mexican soil.
He will then join the rest of the squad at the resort town of Playa del Carmen where the Tigers are in preseason under the leadership of their new coach Miguel Herrera, Mexico coach at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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"It's an important signing, but I can not guarantee any player, whatever his name, that he will be the holder," Herrera recently warned, when asked about the 2018 world champion, the most publicized rookie in football. Mexican this season.
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