By wanting to tease
Didier Deschamps
with the player proposal made by Brigitte Macron for the French team,
Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine
was caught in her own trap.
During a visit to a hospital in Reims on January 19 for the Yellow Pieces 2024 operation, the First Lady suggested to the coach to take an interest in Stade de Reims striker Junya Ito.
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“There is a Japanese who plays very well in Reims! What's his name again? Yes, Ito that's it. He is very good
,” she declared to our colleagues at Radio Champagne before speaking to Didier Deschamps.
“We must select him from the Didier team!
Why don't you take it?
»
Amused, the coach of the French football team responded implacably:
“Well because he’s Japanese!
»
.
Didier Deschamps in “C à vous” on January 30, 2024 Screenshot France 5
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Invited Tuesday evening in
“C à vous”
alongside his deputy Guy Stéphan, Didier Deschamps saw the mockery coming from Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine.
" This is not beautiful.
If you attack Brigitte Macron, I will be her first defender.
We misled him
,” he replied very calmly with a smile.
A few minutes earlier, the presenter had returned to the latter's difficulties in pronouncing the names of certain players.
“Schneiderlin, every time I had to take him, poor guy
,” remembered Didier Deschamps about the midfielder.
“So, he will not be in the selection of 26 players for Euro 2024?
»
continued Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine about Morgan Schneiderlin who, at 34, is playing modestly in Greece in the Kifissia FC club.
“No, it’s been a while since he’s been in the French team but it doesn’t matter, Babeth,”
Didier Deschamps rebuked her, emphasizing that the player – in a relationship with a former candidate for “Koh- Lanta” – is
“not far”
from having retired.
Morgan Schneiderlin has not appeared in the French team since November 17, 2015.