Will the French have the strongest team at the Olympic Games?

In the upcoming summer, we will be watching two major sporting events. These are UEFA Euro 2024 and the Olympic Games. The football tournament also attracts a lot of attention from fans at the Olympic Games, even though the national teams do not compete in the strongest teams. At the Olympic Games, players up to the age of 23 have the right to perform for the national team, with the possibility of giving invitations to three players who are above the mentioned age limit.

Given that the Olympic Games are being held in Paris this time, France has great ambitions in that competition, and it is clear that the goal is to win the gold medal. Recently, there has been speculation about whether France will play in the strongest possible squad at the Olympic Games. This national team will be led from the bench by the famous French footballer, Thiery Henry.

Mbappe to play at the Olympic Games?

Henry intends to assemble the strongest possible team at the Olympic Games because he wants Mbappe, Giroud, and Griezmann to play for the French national team in addition to many young and talented players. France has a huge motive to win the second Olympic gold in history on home soil. If Henry had the aforementioned players in his team at the Olympic Games, it would be one of the strongest national teams ever to appear at the most important sporting event.

At the moment, it seems that it will not be easy to do because Real Madrid is against the players of this team performing in the Olympic Games. It should be mentioned that the Olympic Games are held outside the FIFA schedule and that accordingly, the clubs have no obligation to let players participate in the Olympic tournament. Football is the only collective sport in which young players perform and not the strongest teams, as is the case with other sports at the Olympic Games.

Real should release players like Tchouameni and Camavinga, but the problem could happen around Mbappe, who will most likely move to the royal club in the summer. It is an open secret for now, but the entire football world is convinced that Mbappe has completed his mission in Paris and is moving to Madrid in the summer. The Royal Club is not willing to let him play in the Olympic Games immediately after signing the contract.

Mbappe has already won the title of world champion, countless trophies with PSG, although he lacks a trophy in the Champions League, and we will see if we will still see him in Paris during the summer, but at the Olympic Games, where France won the only gold medal so far in 1984 in Los Angeles.

France will have a dream team at the Olympic Games

Regardless of whether Mbappe will play at the Olympics, the national team led by Henry will have a very powerful squad. The legendary Arsenal and French national team player will call up all the best under-23 players that France currently has. They are Camavinga, Tchouameni, Tel, Saliba, Gusto, Barcola, Zaire-Emery, Lukeba, Cherky, Kalimuendo… France led by Henry will play two friendly matches against Ivory Coast and the USA in the coming days.

Henry is currently the coach of the U-21 national team, so accordingly he will lead the national team that will participate in the Olympic Games from the bench. The legendary French player had a great playing career, but his coaching career did not start in the best way since he did not make a name for himself in Monaco and Montreal, but in the national team it could be a completely different story.

The French public has high hopes for him, that during the summer at the Olympic Games, he and his pullets could win the gold medal that has been waiting for 4 decades. Henry is ready to fight to have the strongest squad in Paris, although he is aware that it will not be easy for him to convince all the clubs to let the players go.

“The thing with Real Madrid? I imagined it? You know, I never stop at the first “no”. We will try to talk to them, we hope that Real will accept us.” “It won’t be easy, but we don’t want to be defeated. After all, they are clubs”.

The football tournament at the Olympic Games will start on July 24, just ten days after the end of UEFA Euro 2024 in which France also has a strong chance of winning the title. The tournament will be played in seven cities and 16 national teams will participate. In addition to France, the names of 11 other participants are known for now. More teams from Asia are expected, with another team from that continent having to play a playoff with one team from Africa, and that will be the last participant in the Olympic tournament.

Hungary and Great Britain have had the most success at the Olympic Games so far with three gold medals, with the Hungarians winning the last title in 1968 and the British back in 1912. At the last tournament in Japan, Brazil won, but we will not see this team in France because it did not succeed. to qualify and we will get a new Olympic champion.