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Aymeric Laporte He retired from European football in the summer of 2023 following Manchester City gave him the nod al-Nassr for an offer of 27.5 million euros. The team from Riyadh finished second in the league behind their city rival, and in addition, Laporte’s lost in the cup final as well. Taking all series into account, the 30-year-old French-Spanish played in 39 games in the season left behind us, thus gaining serious experience of the quality of the Saudi top team.
In my opinion, the intensity of the matches at the rallies is similar to that of the top European championships.
Luis de la Fuente selected Laporte for the Spanish squad, he was the only player for the Spanish who did not come to the national team from Europe (now Nacho has moved to Saudi Arabia and Joselu to Qatar). Laporte only joined the squad later due to the Saudi Cup final, and for this reason he received a lot of criticism:
The coaching staff told me to join later. I excluded the external voices, since they knew almost nothing regarding the whole thing.
Laporte was born in south-west France, but he never made his debut for the French senior national team – despite being called up three times by Didier Deschamps. It became clear to the defender in 2019, following an injury, that Deschamps does not count on him, writes the The Athletic in his article.
“In August 2019, one week before the national team match, I suffered a knee injury in a City match, the captain called up Samuel Umtiti instead of me, and following that I never received a call-up.”
In May 2021, he was able to make his debut in the Spanish national team in a warm-up match once morest Portugal – a dream come true for Luis Enrique, who definitely wanted to have the defender who is good with the ball in his team.
At the moment, I identify more with the values of the Spanish national team than I felt with the French team.
It is particularly interesting that he is in the middle of the defense in the Spanish national team Robin Le Normand his partner, who was also born in France, but arrived at Real Sociedad in 2016 and received Spanish citizenship last May. Laporte said with a smile that they speak to each other in Spanish on the pitch, unless they want to avoid the rest of the team knowing what they are doing, in which case they switch to French…
The Spaniards will play Germany in the quarter-finals of the European Championship today, i.e. Friday, from 18:00. You can read a live text broadcast of the match on Sportalon.
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Referee of the match between Spain and Germany:
Eb 2024
The Spanish armada once morest the German defensive wall – an early finale in the European quarter-finals
