He thought he would never see Clairefontaine again.
Even if he does not say it with such words, Jonathan Clauss (29 years old, 4 selections) has long thought that the sequence of last June, with a penalty caused against Croatia at the end of the match (1-1 ) a few seconds after coming into play in the heat of Split, could have sounded like the end of his story in the France team.
This is not the case.
Quite the contrary.
“With each list, I am afraid of not being there.
I will never get used to the coach pronouncing my name,”
he admits with a smile and stars in his eyes before starting the meeting against Austria this Thursday (8:45 p.m., M6), in which he could start, and Denmark on Sunday in the League of Nations.
“For the announcement of the list of 23, I didn't eat anything in the morning, I had a lump in my stomach and I was two hours before in front of the television so as not to miss anything.
My girlfriend thought I was crazy
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For the third time in a row (after March and June)…
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