Tchouaméni: 'All eyes will be on me'
QATAR WORLD CUP | FRANCE
The Real Madrid player doesn’t shrug off the responsibility of leading France’s midfield in the World Cup, with Pogba and Kanté missing the tournament.
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Barcelona
Aurélien Tchouaméni has already assumed he will have to be one of the key components for France in the World Cup, due to Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kanté’s absence, two of the ‘Les Bleus’ players that won the 2018 Russia World Cup.
At just 22 years old, the ‘Casa Blanca’ midfielder arrives at the Qatari challenge in good shape, and fully aware of the confidence Didier Deschamps has put on his shoulders.
‘It’s clear that with the absences of Paul and N’Golo, all eyes will be looking at me. I am where I’ve always wanted to be, I live for this, to have these responsibilities’, the French midfielder asserted in an interview with ‘Telefoot’.
‘My first goal was to get to this World Cup, and now we have to focus on what we have to do on the field, collectively and individually, to meet the expectations’, Tchouaméni continued. ‘We know the World Cup is the greatest thing, and we have to keep calm. We hear a lot that we’re a young team, perhaps less experienced than others, and we want to prove on the field that is not true’, the Real Madrid player said.
‘I feel pretty good, had a small issue with my adductors. We thought the safest thing to do was to not play the whole training sessions, and now I feel fine’, the former Monaco player said ahead of his first World Cup. France will start his participation against Australia next Tuesday.
