Which is called hanging up with class.

While he could have quietly continued until Euro 2024 given his insane level in Qatar, Hugo Lloris chose to end his international career after 145 selections and seven final stages of great competition with the Blues, “proud to have given everything” as he explains in a long interview with

the team

 : “I don't want to wait for the moment when I start to do a little less.

I prefer to go out still at the top, after having helped the French team to reach the World Cup final.

I can't have any regrets after playing 145 matches, seven major competitions, and winning a World Cup: I feel privileged.



"Fooling around for the purpose, I don't know how to do"

The best goalkeeper in the history of the Blues, in any case the most decisive in the final phase over time, took the opportunity to return to a painful trauma: his helplessness in the exercise of shots on goal, still observed against the Argentina in the final.

“Generally speaking, I haven't been very successful in my career in this exercise.

In fact, there are things I don't know how to do.

Fooling around in goal, ostensibly destabilizing the opponent by playing with the limit, I don't know how to do it.

I am too rational, too honest to go into that area.

I don't know how to win like that, even if I really didn't want to lose like that, either.

As after Switzerland at Euro 2021, Lloris, who does not want to overwhelm Emiliano Martinez however - "he has been judged enough like that" - also wants to ensure that he knew the habits of Argentine shooters at his fingertips. and also delivers an interesting lead for the future: “You have analyzed everything in Argentinian shooters, but there are other data, too.

When the Argentinians show up, there are only guys who take penalties at club level.

Not with us, apart from Kylian.

When you see Dybala coming in, Lautaro Martinez, you know why.

Dybala, he never kicks in the middle, and this time he puts her in the middle, and she goes to that off my foot…”

“Karim was a major asset”

The Tottenham goalkeeper finally responds to the gossips who claim that he did not take a dim view of Benzema's departure at the start of the adventure, in a fairly emphatic tone: "There are a lot of things that have been said, and which are either false or ridiculous: the atmosphere was very good before his departure, and very good after, and it was very normally amplified thanks to our journey and the euphoria.

But we would all have preferred that the Ballon d'Or, when we see what he has brought since his return, could be with us.

This is still a major plus!

To say that we would have pushed for him to leave is completely false.

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