Her gesture led the French team to end up in inferiority this Tuesday against Iceland (2-1) in qualifying for the 2026 World Cup and she could have paid dearly. Aurélien Tchouameni was expelled in the middle of the second period for an uncontrolled tackle on the right tibia of Jon Dagur Thorsteinson.
The defensive midfielder of Real Madrid then received a warning before receiving a red card after referee Antonio Nobre went to see the images from the edge of the field. The Blues then suffered a little at the end of the game but managed to preserve an important success for qualification.
This Wednesday, Aurélien Tchouameni went to Artigues-Près-Bordeaux to inaugurate a stadium in his name. The 25 -year -old player was trained at the Girondins de Bordeaux before playing in Monaco and then Real Madrid since 2022. During this moving day for the Merengue, he spoke about his expulsion from the day before. “I saw the images again, yes it was deserved. It was not voluntary but it was a bad gesture, I tried to recover the ball and there was a little too much aggressiveness, a little too much commitment, that is part of the game I continue to learn, I am still young. We will use this for the future. »»
Asked about the testimony of his opponent who said he almost passed out in the face of the violence of the shock, Tchouameni kicked a little in touch. “I don’t know, he seemed to go well when I saw him at the end to try to apologize because I saw the images. Even if it was not voluntary it could have been even more dangerous. We won this is the most important, the team did the job. »»
According to Opta, Tchouameni is the first player to receive two red cards in the French team (he had harvested one against Belgium in the League of Nations) from a certain … Zinédine Zidane! Enough to make the former Bordeaux laugh. “It’s always good to be compared to Zidane, it’s never bad!” “, He concluded.
