French team. At the center forward position of the Blues, the post-Giroud era has begun

Of course, he didn’t imagine finishing this way. Downgraded, on the bench, having to make do with the crumbs left by the other attackers, even though he wasn’t in Olympic form in Germany. For his last Euro, his last competition with the Blues, Olivier Giroud would have liked to go out with a bang. That wasn’t the case.

At least he never lost the affection of the public, who never stopped calling for him by singing his praises. It had started in Bordeaux, for his last outing in France with the blue jersey and the captain’s armband, which had “warmed his heart”. And already, Didier Deschamps had in a way announced the color by wanting to desacralize this moment. “Afterwards, we will talk about his last training session,…