The suspense did not last long. For almost a week now and since the announcement of Didier Deschamps’ list, the question of the identity of the captain for the meeting of the French football team in October has arisen. Antoine Griezmann recently retired from the national team, Kylian Mbappé and N’Golo Kanté absent, who will inherit the armband for the Blues match against Israel, on Thursday, October 10 in Budapest?
Aurélien Tchouaméni is therefore the lucky one: he will be the 133rd player in the history of the Blues to occupy the position; at least for this meeting. The midfielder will appear at the traditional press conference on the eve of the match, on Wednesday, October 9, in his capacity as “Captain tomorrow against Israel”as specified by the French national team squad. The Real Madrid player has, therefore, no guarantees of continuing with this responsibility ahead of the match on Monday, October 14, against Belgium, in Brussels.
Third player with the most international caps in the current squad
Other names (Mike Maignan, Jules Koundé and Ibrahima Konaté) have been mentioned in recent days to replace captain Mbappé and Kanté, who wore the armband in September, against Belgium in Lyon. Present at a press conference on Tuesday, Konaté was also considered one of the leaders among the twenty-three players who flew to the Hungarian capital this morning: “Two or three names come to mind, either Mike [Maignan]I…July [Koundé] and aurel [Tchouaméni] maybe. »
Third player with the most caps in the current squad, with 36 caps – tied with Jules Koundé and behind Ousmane Dembélé (51) and Lucas Digne (47) – Tchouaméni obtains a logical promotion, which quickly convinced Deschamps after his debut in the selection in 2021. The midfielder likes to fulfill the media obligations inherent to his status as captain and has often relieved Mbappé and Griezmann in this exercise. He will do it again on Wednesday afternoon, before, perhaps, handing the bracelet to another teammate.
