“It’s nonsense”, what will the clubs’ truce look like during the World Cup?

At the Parc des Princes,

A quality Sunday brunch on Sunday at the Parc, even if the place is not listed on any of the trendy sites that swarm on the places of debauchery at 50 euros a slice of bacon and orange juice in the capital. Come on, we no longer remember what we ate and we fell asleep a little in the middle, but thank you to the Auxerre supporters for having brightened up this PSG-Auxerre a little more than their players. Two banners “boycott Qatar” then “Fuck Qatar” brandished a few minutes apart, the Parisian stewards did not steal their salaries, the buggers.

Neymar left in fourth gear

For the rest, a manita in the rules and a last match without injury thanks to the collaboration of the men of Pélissier. Perhaps they also wanted to save themselves for Qatar, at least the only one of them a priori concerned, the Ghanaian side Mensah. And here are all these beautiful people in front of the great unknown of the season: a one-month truce between the Pyrenees and the Alps without any sense on paper, between those who go to Qatar, those who stay but who still go to the selection young people or stringing together two international matches with a third-rate team, and the unranked, who will have to be given a vacation in the meantime.

Everyone composes in their own way. In Paris, since we are there, we can almost turn off the heating: 12 selected for the World Cup, barely enough to play ball tennis with the remaining ones. It will therefore be cut according to playing time, individual preparation for the punished, then gradual resumption of collective training from December 5, depending on those present. Galtier also dropped the case, explaining himself that he would also go to see some matches in Qatar, after all. Among the others, we try year after year to build a coherent calendar: two weeks of vacation in most cases, then an internship in a welcoming place (Morocco or Spain, place your bets) with a number of friendly matches proportional to the results recorded so far.

“Clear your head” before leaving for an internship

Thus, Laurent Blanc has already decided to load the boat of OL, with resumption on the 25th to redo an athletic cherry and no less than five friendlies to make himself believe that the Lyon workforce is worth something other than a 9th place well warm in the soft belly. The players from Auxerre don’t yet know how they’re going to be eaten, but they’re all waiting for the holidays to digest a much busier first half of the season than usual for clubs that never play in Europe: “We will already try to clear his head to better return to war, rest will do good, concedes Lassine Sinayoko. Afterwards I imagine that the staff will make us work to make up for these two lost weeks, even if personally I will follow a program with a personal sports coach”.

His teammate Benoît Costil, an old L1 backpacker, is more skeptical about the possible benefits of this unusual truce. But that will at least give Christophe Pélissier, who has just arrived, time to instil one or two tactical pretexts in detail before the resumption.

“Perhaps it’s a good thing to put in place the coach’s instructions, to start again with a mini-preparation, perhaps an internship knowing that a lot of players arrived after the internship last summer. It can allow us to spend a few days together, to refine the links, and to put in place what we want to do over this long second part of the season”.

The promise of another 23-day season that does not hurt those who missed the first 15. For good students, this dark history of the World Cup resembles the heartbreak of the All Saints holidays: why stop now when we are a hit in all subjects and the ballot has not yet fallen? Bruno Genesio already imagines the worst for his Breton Barça: “We have to adapt, but we are almost heading into the unknown. It will almost take a second preparation with players who are absent and who will have to be given a rest when they are eliminated. Maybe when we resume we will play without six or seven players depending on their course, it’s nonsense.

Rest to plan on returning for the globalists

The Rennes coach is naturally grumpy, but an anecdote all the same that speaks of the impotence of L1 coaches in recent days: Christophe Galtier, who had taken it upon himself to organize playful games to train him to avoid “the psychosis of the injury” in recent days, rushed to Neymar before the latter, replaced at the hour mark, returned to the locker room in fourth gear. Why such a rush to wish him good luck for Qatar? “I knew he had to leave quickly, I was not sure to see him again in the locker room at the end of the match”. Not sure that the Brazilian shows such diligence in returning to experience the Parisian winter at the end of December, victory at the World Cup or not.

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