When Florian Thauvin's juggling makes the canvas laugh

Received Thursday in Monterrey like a rock star, Florian Thauvin met the supporters the next day in the Universitario stadium, the enclosure of the Tigers.

"The people are very nice," said the former Marseillais.

Sometimes in France the supporters are not, it's difficult for me to say it because I'm French ”.

The presentation to local fans was made with great fanfare, between fireworks, mariachi music and a field trip with accolades and autographs for the Frenchman wearing the yellow and blue Tigers jersey flocked with his number 26. Thauvin also been in contact for about twenty minutes with supporters from the center of the field, using a microphone.

He told them how his name was pronounced, and they sang it in chorus.

But, unfortunately for him, it is not these images that have circulated the most on social networks.

It was indeed the series of failed juggles that attracted attention and immediately aroused its share of mockery.

Some did not hesitate to make the connection with the presentation of Ousmane Dembélé to FC Barcelona which had also given rise to a comic sequence.

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- Olentzero_974🇷🇪 (@ SIGMA41HD) June 12, 2021

Others, on the other hand, took his defense by praising his status as world champion and by showing a streak of better technical quality ...

Así dominated the pelota un CAMPEÓN DEL MUNDO… @FlorianThauvin

No se dejen engañar… la envidia es canija 🔥 pic.twitter.com/1ZMLUGODAO

- Jesús Barrón (@BarronSports) June 12, 2021

For his part, Florian Thauvin assured that he wanted “to do the same things” as André-Pierre Gignac with the Monterrey Tigers, and to find the France team, a “very difficult” objective but that he considers possible.

"I am ready for the requirement, in France and in Marseille there is a lot of pressure, it is the French club with the most pressure, I have the experience and the maturity for that," he said. he added during a press conference given almost entirely in very clear and fluent Spanish for a quarter of an hour.