Warren Zaire-Emery prepared well for his big oral examination by walking calmly on the stage of the French team’s press conferences on Thursday, two days away from becoming perhaps the youngest Blue since 1911.
“It didn’t particularly worry me, I took it as an exercise for the baccalaureate, it’s very good“, says the 17-year-old kid about this media meeting, with a view to the match in Nice against Gibraltar, in qualifying for Euro-2024, for which France already has its ticket.
He has a small nest egg of points with his French baccalaureate grades, which is not the favorite subject of this rather mathematical Terminale STMG student. “It’s okay, I did well: 10 oral and 12 written, or the opposite, I don’t know anymore…” he smiled.
In football, he is much further ahead and could become on Saturday at 17 years, eight months and 10 days the youngest French international since Felix Vial17 years, two months and 15 days when he played against Luxembourg on October 29, 1911 (4-1 victory).
“It sure goes fast“, he laughs, “but I don’t ask myself any questions“. To find out if he is playing, “we will have to see with the coach” Didier DeschampsOf course, “but I’m here, I’m ready“, says the Paris Saint-Germain prodigy, already 46 professional matches with his club.
