2023-08-21 15:53:00
Thierry Henry (46) has been appointed coach of Espoirs and the French Olympic team. The former striker will have the mission to make the Blues shine during the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Arsenal legend Henry succeeds Sylvain Ripoll. Next summer during the Olympic Games at home, he might lead Kylian Mbappé since the 2018 world champion has repeatedly proclaimed his “dream” of playing in the Olympic Games, a wish supported by the FFF.
Henry was part of a list of four candidates, also including Jocelyn Gourvennec, Julien Stéphan and Sabri Lamouchi, applicants to replace Sylvain Ripoll. He was sacked following the elimination of Les Bleuets in the quarter-finals of Euro 2023 once morest Ukraine (3-1).
Less successful conversion
Through his record and his aura, Henry, world (1998) and European (2000) champion with the France team, will inevitably offer very high media visibility to the Espoirs selection which, in addition to Paris 2024, will have the task of to get his ticket for Euro 2025. The first qualifying match is scheduled for September 11 in Slovenia following a friendly on September 7 once morest Denmark in Nancy.
But if the former striker (51 goals in 123 blue caps) had a huge playing career, his conversion as head coach has been much less successful so far. His first experience in Monaco lasted only three and a half months, between October 2018 and January 2019. He was then named head of the Montreal Impact in MLS in November 2019 but he will end up resigning in February 2021 without results. convincing.
He was also twice the assistant coach of the Belgian team (2016-2018, 2021-2022) with which he arrived in the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2018.
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