Ahead of France’s first appearance at the World Cup, Get French Football News spoke exclusively to World Cup winner Franck Leboeuf.
In this third of a four-part interview, Franck talks about the importance of squad harmony for France’s – and England’s – chances of winning the World Cup.
Looking back, less so to 2002 but certainly in 2010, France’s problems can manifest themselves more off the pitch than on it. There’s been a little fuss made about the clip of Kylian Mbappé and N’Golo Kanté ignoring each other. Is there really an issue or is this just the media trying to create a story out of nothing?
When you are 100% invested in this, like us, you see problems everywhere! People in everyday life, they haven’t even heard of a Kanté-Mbappé problem, they are not aware of it.
In 2002, there were tensions because we had lost a little bit of our mojo as they say and we were at the end of an extraordinary cycle from 1995 to 2001. By 2002, we were very tired. The World Cup started two or three weeks too early and we’d all played a lot of games and didn’t have sufficient recovery time. Basically we never looked for excuses, but there were excuses.
In this third of a four-part interview, Franck talks about the importance of squad harmony for France’s – and England’s – chances of winning the World Cup.
Looking back, less so to 2002 but certainly in 2010, France’s problems can manifest themselves more off the pitch than on it. There’s been a little fuss made about the clip of Kylian Mbappé and N’Golo Kanté ignoring each other. Is there really an issue or is this just the media trying to create a story out of nothing?
When you are 100% invested in this, like us, you see problems everywhere! People in everyday life, they haven’t even heard of a Kanté-Mbappé problem, they are not aware of it.
In 2002, there were tensions because we had lost a little bit of our mojo as they say and we were at the end of an extraordinary cycle from 1995 to 2001. By 2002, we were very tired. The World Cup started two or three weeks too early and we’d all played a lot of games and didn’t have sufficient recovery time. Basically we never looked for excuses, but there were excuses.
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