Having become a manager of the French team, Adrien Rabiot was not always in harmony with his coach from the Blues, Didier Deschamps.
Adrien Rabiot has become an essential element of the French team since the last World Cup. And despite sometimes sluggish services in recent months, the Olympian player has kept all the confidence of Didier Deschamps, who makes him an indisputable holder in the midfield.
The former Parisian nevertheless had a difficult relationship with the tricolor coach, the highlight being reached as the 2018 World Cup approaches when the native of Saint-Maurice refused the role of reservist to whom the Basque technician destined. Enough to be removed from the French team for more than two years.
But since his return at the end of August 2020, everything seems to be forgotten.
“We discussed well (with Didier Deschamps), I appreciated this conversation and it allowed us to free us each on our side”he confides a few months later, claiming his love for the French team: “I will not let go of this place for nothing in the world: I don’t want to get out of this group. »»
Adrien Rabiot has new responsibilities among the Blues
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Relayed by journalist Tom Williams, Adrien Rabiot returned to his relationship with Didier Deschamps. “During my first selection, I was very young. Undoubtedly, you do not have the experience and all the codes/reflexes that I have today to have a relationship with the coach, he explained.
The most capped players have a different relationship with him. Little by little, this type of relationship is developing through the moments spent together and the tournaments played. »»
“Now we have a relationship where we can tell ourselves things, he continued. There is a real bond of trust that binds us. For a coach, I think it’s important to have players on whom we can rely and to whom we can say things
And Adrien Rabiot to pour out on his new status as a French team and his love of the blue jersey. “For me, it is a question of giving the example on the ground. When you arrive at the castle, you have to give everything, whether training or in matches. You must always be inhabited by this obsession with winning for France, he explained. Knowing that the collective is more important than any individuality, whether we are together in victories or defeats. You have to show by fact its values and transmit them, this is one of the responsibilities that the most experienced players of the selection have. »»
