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2020-11-14T14:53:08.412Z


| World footballCorentin Tolisso's career (26) at Bayern Munich and the tricolor team looked stuck • He made the switch during the Corona break, and since then he is flourishing • On Saturday (21:45) against Portugal he will try to prove that his place in the next Euro is guaranteed Tolisso (right) with Pogba and Griezmann. He does not need favors from Dashan Photography:  Reuters A year ago, Corentin Toliss


Corentin Tolisso's career (26) at Bayern Munich and the tricolor team looked stuck • He made the switch during the Corona break, and since then he is flourishing • On Saturday (21:45) against Portugal he will try to prove that his place in the next Euro is guaranteed

  • Tolisso (right) with Pogba and Griezmann.

    He does not need favors from Dashan

    Photography: 

    Reuters

A year ago, Corentin Tolisso, a Bayern Munich midfielder, had already ordered his agent to start finding him a team to absorb him.

The few minutes he received from the German champions frustrated him and it was clear to him that his chances of keeping his place in the French national team for Euro 2020 are almost nil.

"I asked myself questions, especially in January when the transfer window opened, I barely played and the euro was supposed to start in June, I was worried," he told Channel Plus in an interview.

Just at that time, the corona plague broke out and absurdly, as it helped quite a few players change their destiny and reinvent themselves, so it helped the 26-year-old player.

A year later, Tolisso is booming in Bavaria and is currently considered one of Didier Deschamps' bankers on the roster ahead of the postponed European Championships this summer. 

Tolisso arrived in Munich for a million in the summer of 2017, when Bayern paid him a transfer fee of 41.5 million euros, the most expensive transfer in Bundesliga history at the time.

In his first season he provided the goods with 10 goals and 7 assists in 44 appearances in all competitions.

Two years later, including last season, he suffered serious injuries including a tear in the cruciate ligament, instability and could not really equal the level to Tiago Alcantara, Joshua Kimich and Leon Goretzka. 

To his delight other than Corona forcing UEFA to postpone the gala euro and making teams realize they could not spend extra money, two more important things happened: Thiago left the summer for Liverpool and Hans Dieter Flick who swept Bayern to incredible treble, believed he could get more out of Tolisso. 

Flick has repeatedly watched his games in his final season in Lyon, the 2016/17 season, playing as an “8” and being the standout of the French luxury club.

The young coach wanted to know everything that would help him promote our player.

He saw his ability to jump from field to field, to help defensively, the speed with which he pushes his team's game forward and the level of his ability to risk the goal when the game is stuck.

He also took his trainee for many encouraging conversations and placed him in his preferred position.

While Kimikich (who was injured on Saturday against Dortmund and will be out for two months less) and Gorzka are making order in the center of the center, Tolisso could be closer to the rival pitch.

"You can see in training that a burden has come off him," Flick said, "he just enjoyed training and playing, confidence came back to him and that's very important to him."

Club chairman Karl-Heinz Rominga is also happy: “Coco brings a lot of quality to our game.

He is very dangerous in front of the goal and he is an important addition for us so far. " 

Didier Deschamps, the French coach, is doing everything he can to keep faith with the people who brought him the World Cup in the summer of 2018. He goes against the criticism that accuses him of over-love for Olivier Giroud even though he barely sees minutes at Chelsea and continues to give players poor ability in their teams like Antoine Griezmann and Paul Pogba wear the 'tricolor' shirt which serves as a place of refuge for them.

At the same time, for a man who has won the World Cup both as a player and as a coach, it is clear that the dynamics in football are changing and if the Euro does take place this summer as planned, he will have to make adjustments.

In the end, the best players are the ones who will get on the pitch.

If Tolisso (who is a partner in the World Cup in Russia in 5 games) continues to play as he does, he will not need any youthful kindness.

What he does on the field will secure him a place in the 11th.

On Saturday (21:45) against Portugal in the direct battle for the third house title in the League of Nations, he has a chance to show that he is in the best period he has had in recent years.

Source: israelhayom

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