This is the unusual sequence of the week.
Traveling to the Reims University Hospital last Friday with Didier Deschamps as part of the Yellow Pieces operation, Brigitte Macron made an amusing suggestion to the Blues coach.
“There’s a Japanese guy who plays very well in Reims, what’s his name again?
“, indicated the wife of the President of the Republic, in a sequence reported by the local media Champagne FM.
When the name of Junya Ito (2 goals, 4 assists this season) was mentioned to her, Brigitte Macron added.
“We have to select him in the team, Didier!
Why don't you take it?
» And the coach, sponsor of Operation Yellow Pieces since 2019, responded with a burst of laughter “Well because he is Japanese!
» And for good reason, Ito (30 years old) has 53 caps (13 goals) with Japan and is currently playing in the Asian Nations Cup, alongside his club teammate Keito Nakamura.
“I don't have any players in Reims, but I look at the team like all the other French and foreign clubs.
“It’s very good what’s happening here,” Deschamps responded a little earlier about the Stade de Reims.
The Champagne club is in fact sixth in Ligue 1 and ahead of Marseille, Lens and Rennes, for example, in the fight for European places.