A key figure in the France team for more than a decade, Olivier Giroud experienced a moment of immense pressure with the Blues.
The international career ofOlivier Giroud did not break with the elimination of the Blues during the last Euro. While Didier Deschamps had put his star striker away this fall, the tricolor coach resolved to recall the Milan player after the injury of Karim Benzema. A winning return for the Savoyard, author of two goals in the two matches against Côte d’Ivoire and South Africa and now turned to the World Cup in Qatar.
France-Switzerland will therefore not remain as Olivier Giroud’s last match in blue. A match like no other for the former Gunner. According to him, the one who has 112 selections and 48 goals for the France team lived there the longest 90 seconds of his life, he told the media 90 football. “I rarely had to take penalties in the Euro or World Cup phase. And from the context, from a lot of things, the penalty I took against Switzerland, I was happy to have put it in the bottom.he explained.
If he had therefore succeeded in his attempt, Kylian Mbappé had failed and the Blues had lost this shootout in sight. However, this elimination does not remain his worst career memory, or this moment which “ should be cleared with alcohol at 90”. Rather, it is “the defeat against the Portuguese at Euro 2016”. Opposed at the Stade de France to a Seleçao quickly deprived of Cristiano Ronaldo, France lost 1-0 in extra time on a long shot from Eder.
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