The French football delegation for the Olympic Games will have a world and European champion at its head in the person of Thierry Henry. This week, Henry was appointed coach of the France U23 team and will therefore take care of the French group at the Olympics in a year. The president of the FFF has justified the choice of Henry in recent hours.
And if theFrench team won a medal at the Paris Olympics next summer? At least that is the wish of Philippe Diallopresident of the French Football Federation, who also made it clear at the headquarters of the FFF in Paris on Thursday that a more important objective could not be excluded: “if possible to bring back the medal of the most beautiful metal “.
For the Olympics, we needed “the perfect embodiment of what we were looking for”
And to do this, the boss of 3F made a big decision with his advisers. While Sylvain Repoll had been in office since 2017, Thierry Henry was appointed as the new coach of theFrance Espoirs team. In comments reported by Le Parisien, Philippe Diallo confided that for these Olympics, France had to be represented by a strong figure. “We needed an incarnation. Thierry Henry is the perfect embodiment of what we were looking for in view of an event that only happens once a century, the Olympic Games at home”.
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The FFF announces it, Henry is honored with the opportunity
Thierry Henry is therefore the one who has been chosen in order to fulfill the high objectives of the French Football Federation at the 2024 Olympic Games. An honor for the world champion as Philippe Diallo entrusted him. “It is an important, ambitious choice to see one of the legends of French football arrive. Thierry Henry is extremely honoured, proud to lead this team (…) It is also a chance for him to demonstrate his talent as a coach”. As for his contract, everything should be completed as soon as possible. “On a more contractual level, we are in the process of finalizing but I don’t think there will be any huge difficulties”.
