Faraj Benlahoucine, Media365: published on Sunday January 08, 2023 at 11:01 p.m.
Absent from the list communicated by Didier Deschamps before the World Cup in Qatar, Jonathan Clauss spoke this Sunday about his immense disappointment.
We often repeat it, in France we have as many coaches as football fans. Thus, Didier Deschamps’ list for the last World Cup in Qatar logically disappointed many supporters. And even more, the absentees of the France group deeming their summons to Blue legitimate. The sensitive points of this list were clearly the full-back positions. And even to a higher degree after the first match of the French team against Australia when Lucas Hernandez was struck down by a serious knee injury in the first minutes. The non-convocations of Ferland Mendy and / or Lucas Digne then questioned a lot. As for the right lane, the same story sounded when Benjamin Pavard was removed from the starting eleven in favor of Jules Koundé, far from being a specialist in the position. Selected six times by Didier Deschamps and confident about his participation in the World Cup, OM right-back Jonathan Clauss expressed his enormous disappointment when he learned that he would not be traveling to Qatar with the Champions League. title world.
“I had an intuition the day before, like when you pass the baccalaureate and you know you don’t have it. (…) There is this little adrenaline of telling yourself that it can’t be true. I manage to sleep, and on D-Day, I can’t stop thinking about it” sensed the ex-Lensois passing through the Canal Football Club in Canal+. “8 p.m. arrives and I watch the news for the first time in my life. At the end of the list, I had no more words. My girlfriend was next to me but I was in a vacuum. In total blur for an hour, an hour and a half. My mother tried to call me fifteen times. I didn’t have the words and it hurt me at the time” confided the Olympian transparently. Subsequently, the right-back confided that he had gently come back up the slope. But even more surprising, that this trauma did not impact him more than another disappointment experienced earlier in his career. “At 18, I wanted to tell my parents that I had signed pro in Strasbourg but that had not been the case. Their sadness that day was greater than after my non-selection for the last World Cup,” he commented, affected by the strong emotion of those around him.
