Unhappy finalist of the World Cup in Qatar, the French team has confirmed its position among the best selections on the planet. An abysmal gap with Ligue 1 clubs that former LFP boss Frdric Thiriez tried to explain.
Frdric Thiriez calls for state aid for French clubs.
Those over 40 have to pinch themselves to believe it. For the fourth time in 24 years, the French team reached the final of the World Cup. Two convincing successes against Brazil (1998) and Croatia (2018), two defeats on penalties against Italy (2006) and Argentina (2022), the Blues have clearly been part of the cream of the crop since the end of the 20th century. .
A new deal that inevitably delights Frdric Thiriez. In the last seven World Cups, France has been a finalist four times. A single balance sheet. Brazil, Germany and Argentina do twice as well. Spain and Italy four times less. France is unquestionably the most successful nation over 25 years, the most “sustainable” judged the former boss of the LFP in an interview granted to the newspaper Le Parisien.
France, a training center
On the contrary, club football has much more difficulty obtaining positive results. Over the same period, no team has managed to win any European Cup. Only Olympique de Marseille with three lost C3 finals (1999, 2004, 2018), Monaco (2004) and Paris Saint-Germain (2020), who fell in the C1 final, deceived. How to explain such a gap with the tricolor selection?
In an ideal (or better) world, the vast majority of talents trained in France would pursue their careers there, offering the public an even better level of professional championship and a brilliant track record in the European Cup. pointed to the lawyer. Training France, looted, becomes the second country “exporting” players, behind Brazil. She remains stuck in an unflattering fifth place in the UEFA index. (…) Our national team has never had so few players playing in France.
The central role of the state pointed out
For Thiriez, nothing is done to help French clubs. Competition between European clubs is completely false by the exorbitant level of employers’ social charges in France. (…) Angers pays 12 times more charges each year than Real Madrid; Saint-tienne pays more charges than all the clubs in the Bundesliga put together, Olympique Lyonnais more than the Bundesliga and the Spanish Liga put together, and PSG alone more than all the clubs in the three German, Spanish and Italian meets… a pest the former member of the PS.
But then, what solutions to fill this increasingly visible gap with the other teams of the biggest championships of the Old Continent? In the opinion of the 70-year-old man, the state must quickly take up its responsibilities. It just takes a little courage and pedagogy to move forward, except to shamefully resign oneself to what France is playing in the second European division , finished the senior official. Will the message finally get through?
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