It has grown in power, without trembling, taking on the role of leader of the French Hopes team, qualified for the semi-finals of the European Championship, this Wednesday at 9 p.m., against Germany. At 20 years old, Mathys Tel is in age of age, animated by the desire to make history by adding his name to the list of a tournament that the Blueberries have not won since 1988 (generation Cantona), by winning a new title, too, a month and a half after the Europa League with Tottenham, which he has joined since February.
Passed number one ahead according to the packages (Ekitike, Kalimuendo), the attacker has become essential, essential even to this team which he dynamites by his races, his calls and the energy he deploys in each match to shake up the defenses.
The Danes failed to turn it off on Sunday evening. Shifted by Abbline, the other Matthis of the troop, the tricolor number 7 propelled his team in the last square thanks to a goal qualified as “Thierry Henryesque” by the former British scorer Jermain Defoe. He had already marked on penalty against Georgia (3-2).
𝐃𝐞𝐬 𝐞 𝐚̀ 𝐚̀ 𝐥’𝐞ense 𝐩𝐮𝐫 😍 😍
The purpose of the qualifier ‘in the semi-finals of the Euro U21! It’s signed Mathys Tel 🔥#DANFRA #U21EURO pic.twitter.com/7SvubdoI0m
– France team ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) June 23, 2025
Absent from the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 last year, the former Rennais took responsibility under the orders of Gérald Baticle who had asked him to raise the cursor after the first match against Portugal. Message received and applied.
In the wake of a Djaoui Cissé, who turns out to be in broad daylight, he takes advantage of this European championship to signal and shows Thomas Frank, new coach of Tottenham, whom he has a fabric to settle in his team next season. The technician had also called him during the preparation for Clairefontaine to tell him his desire to make it a central element of his line of attack. At the rate he fits in Slovakia, he will recover it with full confidence.
With four years in the professional world, Mathys Tel takes advantage of his past experiences: from his shattering beginnings to Bayern to his two transfers to several tens of millions of euros, including moments of doubt, the center-forward, transferred for € 35 million and 5 bonus in Tottenham on June 15, appears to be more freed, invested with a mission that he intends to carry out his term.
“We are here to win this euro, we all push, and I even stronger because I had this taste for victory in 2022. I tell everyone that we have to go and get it, I want a trophy, we want a trophy, I want to do it. »»
Three years after winning the Euro U17 alongside elements like Désiré Doué or Warren Zaïre-Emery, Mathys Tel is experiencing the road to follow. Only two games only and he would get the stars again.
