From our Special Envoy in Doha,
The press conference is an integral part of being a footballer. And as Didier Deschamps, clearly more relaxed on the eve of France-Tunisia than before the two previous matches, recalled from the Doha conference center, “it’s not always easy to be in front of you, even if it depends on your questions”. For Aurélien Tchouaméni, the problem does not arise.
From the height of his 22 years and his 16 selections, the midfielder of real Madrid is in conf as he would be in tap-socks in his living room. Smiling, talkative, not stingy with small valves, the former Monegasque is what is called a good customer in the business. When a journalist tells him that usually at a press conference it is a “player who counts, a manager” who goes up to the stage the day before a match, Tchouaméni bugs. “A player how? A player who counts? I take it the wrong way, watch out! he exclaims with a smile.
It is true that custom dictates that it is always the captain who accompanies the coach in conf on the eve of a match. So, Tchouaméni captain of the Blues in the World Cup at 22? “No,” said Deschamps, without saying who will get the armband since Hugo Lloris should be left on the bench on Wednesday.
The Blues in concert in Doha at the end of the World Cup
The colleague goes on to explain that he precisely wanted to know if he considered himself a member of this team. Answer: “What does leader mean?” I have 16 selections, I store experience. Of course, when we’re at the table, there are a lot of guys I’ve played with. So I’m not necessarily a leader, but I hope that I count a little in this team (laughs)! “.
Then asked about an Instagram story in which we see him trying out the piano at the Hôtel des Bleus, the player trained at the Girondins de Bordeaux nevertheless admits never having “played the piano of [sa] life”, unlike Alex Disasi, his former team-mate in Monaco. “I had learned this little sound in the last 24 hours… There are different poles at the hotel, we have the poker pole, the Uno pole and the one devoted to music. It’s not bad, I hope we can do a little concert before the end of the World Cup! », laughed. We only ask to see.