Mocked and accused of a bad loser since his reaction following the elimination once morest the France team (0-1) in the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup, the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (30 years old, 94 caps) tried to calm things down before playing the Champions League final at the Stade de France on Saturday with Real Madrid once morest Liverpool.
“I don’t know how many French people there will be at the stadium, but in Paris I’ve already been whistled this season, at Chelsea too, and sometimes that allows me to be better. I like it when there’s a hostile atmosphere. But I imagine that they think that I always have the seum (smile)”, joked the Red Devil in the columns of L’Equipe.
The Belgian then explained himself. “I really have nothing once morest France. (…) You have to put yourself in my place. You have just lost, and France, for the last ten minutes, played well, playing the job. But it is football. Against Brazil, we had done the same thing as France for the last ten minutes. But we forget. And then you leave the field, following two minutes, you do a hot interview, which do you mean? You just lost a World Cup semi-final. (…) It’s true that I saw a lot of messages: ‘Courtois, he has the seum’ (laughs). makes me laugh. I have no problem with that”, assured the native of Brée
