At 22, the Real Madrid player must compensate for the packages of experienced Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kanté, absent in Qatar. Saturday, November 26, he will lead the midfielder against the Danes.
by Anthony Hernandez (Special Envoy to Qatar)
“Aurélien Tchouaméni is a medium fairly close to Paul Pogba in his physical profile, but similar to N’Golo Kanté in his technical aspirations.” His file on a famous collaborative online encyclopedia sums up – ironically – the challenge faced which is confronted with The 22 -year -old footballer since the start of the World Cup in Qatar.
In the absence of the two 2018 world champions, forfeits due to injury, the tricolor midfielder rests – in part – on the solid shoulders of the Real Madrid player. Like Tchouaméni, the other five selected in this sector of play – Eduardo Camavonga, Youssouf Fofana, Mattéo Guendouzi, Jordan Veretout and Adrien Rabiot – play their first world. With 30 selections, Rabiot is the most capped.
Against Denmark, Saturday, November 26, Aurélien Tchouaméni will be responsible for filling this void and assuming a role of technical boss, as against Australia at the opening. “From the moment Paul and N’Golo are not there, we know that there are going to be questions about inexperience. But it’s up to us to be even more motivated,” insisted -I before starting his tournament.
Because the young man is representative of this new species of footballers who no longer bother the age indicated on their identity card when they are faced with the high level. When commenting on his list, Didier Deschamps stressed it: “He is part of this young generation who has a lot of talent and qualities.” Since his first professional match in the summer of 2018, during a qualification round For the Europa League in Latvia with the Girondins de Bordeaux, Tchouameni burns the stages of his young career with carefree.
In 2020, after a small 40 games in Gironde, he joined AS Monaco for the sum of 20 million euros. This summer, Real Madrid had to pay five times more to recruit it. Meanwhile, Tchouaméni honored, the 1 er September 2021, the first of his fifteen selections among the Blues.
“he does not go”
Former scorer in Ligue 1, Jimmy Briand has closely observed the phenomenon when he arrived in Bordeaux. “I saw that he had aptitudes for the very high level, recalls the consultant of Amazon Prime Video. What marked me a lot was that he was very attentive to the coaches and of the oldest. With this quality, he could only progress at high speed. “
Aurélien Tchouameni is not one to somatize. In his entourage, he is described as “someone insensitive to pressure”, and even “he does not gamber”. In Madrid, this year, he was able to prove it upon his arrival. After a failed first match, the Spanish press did not spare him, but he did not lose his means. Shortly after, the unexpected departure of one of the pillars of the Merengues, the Brazilian Casemiro, also put it in front of new responsibilities. It didn’t affect him.
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