"There is one thing I regret…" : At the center of the controversy for criticizing Olivier Giroud, Grégory Schneider responds

Grégory Schneider makes his mea culpa. On November 10, the day after Didier Deschamps’ World Cup roster in Qatar was announced, the journalist Release He had harshly questioned Olivier Giroud’s presence on the Blues team at the microphone.Europe 1 : “I don’t understand anything about Giroud’s choice. The world ahead. There is nothing to do there. He won’t be playing anyway because the front trio (Benzema, Mbappé and Griezmann) will take up all the playing time. When he returns, you have to start with a different software.“Available as a columnist Evening Team on Channel Team He then explained that Olivier Giroud’s attitude towards EDF is nothing to be condemned: “Very toxic internally, had problems with health care…“

More than a month later, Olivier Giroud proved Grégory Schneider wrong. The 36-year-old striker, who was at the forefront with the withdrawal of Karim Benzema in the blues attack, became the top scorer in the history of the French team, which he helped advance to the semi-finals. He became the winner of the World Cup with a goal against England.

So Grégory Schneider went back to his words about radio waves.Europe 1 this Monday, December 12: “Maybe there’s one thing I regret, and that’s about toxicity. No, but not because nothing happened. It’s kind of hard to say because I can’t report all the phone calls I make afterwards”initiates the journalist and the journalist develops: “But let’s say there was someone close to the player, let’s put it that way. It didn’t challenge what I had, but it did wake me up in Giroud’s 11-year scale with the France team, the snakes he swallowed with Benzema as in the karting event, the way he constantly took it upon himself… it was unfair to attribute the toxicity to it. , it’s not a big problem though. on him it’s all the same.“

As a result, Grégory Schneider changed his mind about Olivier Giroud and underlined the great performance of the French player, especially in the last quarter-finals: “There is something that caught my attention in the match against England. The two teams were 1-1 and Deschamps decided to remove him from the game. Marcus Thuram goes to warm up, takes off his apron and goes to the side of the court. And there, Giroud scores. This is the story of his life in Giroud. When the capture window is minimized, the better is still there. I wonder if he didn’t see Marcus Thuram come back and it was over him. The less space you give it, the more space it takes up.“Journalist Release He then lauded the top goal scorer in Blues history: “He’s a great player. We wouldn’t be in the semi-finals without him. There’s no denying it’s impossible. You still have to respect the sport and the field, or it’s all over.“

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