Why live-in journalists fear France-Poland

• The French football team will play its round of 16 World Cup in Qatar on Sunday (4 p.m.) against Poland.

• In addition to its star Robert Lewandowski, the Polish selection is made up of several tricky names to spell correctly, such as Szczesny, Bereszynski and Jedrzejczyk.

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  makes you discover the puzzle that awaits the journalists living in this meeting in this sense.

  These deliver their "schemes" to get out of it at best during this France-Poland.

The community manager of AS Saint-Etienne was pleased, in August 2018, by announcing via a Twitter video the recruitment of defender Timothée Kolodziejczak, "a defender who earns points"... at Scrabble.

Namely at least 59, far more than during his four seasons in Forez, punctuated in May by a relegation to Ligue 2. Quickly nicknamed "Kolo" by fans and journalists alike, the tricolor defender of Polish origin constituted a nice teaser, in our championship, to the perilous exercise that awaits many journalists, Sunday (4 p.m.).

To know how to deliver the France-Poland match by showing speed and spelling rigor.

Suffice to say that they have all been crossing their fingers since Wednesday evening for Matty Cash to be established as right-back.

Not because Kylian Mbappé is destined to martyr him, but because it will make them a safe guy in a formation that does not lack puzzle elements.

Going through the selection with us, Walid Kachour, who will live this round of 16 of the Blues World Cup, Sunday on the

site , blocks on number 3, which came into play against Argentina, a certain Artur Jedrzejczyk.

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– AS Saint-Etienne (@ASSEofficiel) August 1, 2018

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“Poland pushes me to do more work upstream”

"He, I have all the trouble in the world to remember the spelling of his name," he says.

I'm not going to lie: for some players like this, it's always Control C-Control V for me from the FIFA site.

Otherwise, I try to find little tricks.

“Like slipping in the number or simply the position of the player to avoid wasting time, and risking mistakes, by often repeating his name.

“It is certain that a live from Poland pushes me to work more before the match than many meetings, underlines Walid Kachour.

And again, in

, we are not required to use the accents specific to the Polish language, such as the “ę” of Szczęsny.

But besides the few complex names, there are players whose background I don't know well, like number 14 Kiwior.

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Well finally Walid, Jakub Kiwior, the 22-year-old central defender from La Spezia (Serie A), who had revealed himself at Železiarne Podbrezová in Slovakia (how do the accents betray our deceitful copy-paste?).

More than Jakub Kiwior, and even Barça star Robert Lewandowski, the deliverers know that they will have to write the name of Wojciech Szczesny in all sauces, given the flamboyant style (no) of the Polish selection.

Evoking the goalkeeper of Juventus was enough to make our colleague Nicolas Camus chafouin, intended to make you live this France-Poland Sunday on

.

“I have already been able to deliver Poland's match against Saudi Arabia (2-0), he says.

No matter how hard I try to break down his name, I get confused almost every time on the spelling of Szczesny, it's awful.

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The Czeslaw Michniewicz dilemma

Florent Le Marquis, who will manage the match live on the

website , is a bit more confident than him: “The SZCZ order is starting to get into my head”.

As a fan of Arsenal (former club of the Polish goalkeeper), Walid Kachour even considers "mastering the writing of his name to the point of quickly being able to draw it live".

He fears the Polish coach more, "with the very nice combination of consonants".

Because yes, Czesław Michniewicz is the anti-Robert Page (Wales) on this World Cup.

"The advantage is that in a match for the France team, we talk above all about the Blues, what they do well, less well, and less about the opponent", smiles Nicolas Camus.

He recognizes that he will prepare a Word document containing the most difficult names on the Polish side, and that he too will give in to the strategy of Control C-Control V. At

, Florent Le Marquis will live facilitated by a back office that is more valuable than ever: “I just have to click on the name of a player in the team composition and it instantly sticks it to me where I want it in my live.

But it's still faster to write the names by hand when you know them.

Unlike other deliverers, I also like to put the first names of the players.

“Suffice to say that we will have a deep admiration for Florent and his panache if we see Krzysztof Piatek and Arkadiusz Milik pass in his live on Sunday.

Far from a feminine China-South Africa

In

, Walid Kachour is preparing to be rigorous on Sunday: “There is no small player or small selection, he recalls.

Respecting everyone's spelling is an essential rule in our writing, and it therefore always involves small tricks.

If hot actions are linked, I will initially put “Lewy” rather than Lewandowski, in order to save time”.

This France-Poland, programmed on a usual herbal tea-Scrabble slot at our grandmother's, can it finally be the most dreaded meeting in a delivery man's life?

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“No, it will not be my most complicated match at liver, spontaneously decides Florent Le Marquis.

I remember having covered a China-South Africa during the 2019 Women's World Cup in France, for which I knew absolutely no player.

“Seen like that, even a combination between Wojciech Szczesny, Bartosz Bereszynski and Artur Jedrzejczyk, driving Czesław Michniewicz overjoyed on the bench, is told serenely.

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