Is that a reason for losing to Switzerland in the last 16? As the “L’Équipe” reports, France’s key players are said to have been busy with video games until late at night during the European Championship.
Some key players of the French national team allegedly gave coach Didier Deschamps a huge headache during the European Championship, which ended on Monday evening with the knockout of the last 16 against Switzerland – and that should not have necessarily been for sporting reasons.
Like the newspaper “L’Équipe”reports, Deschamps and his staff repeatedly had to fight against the bad sleep rhythms of his stars, because they would beat each other up with Netflix and video games that night. The “20Minutes” portal also reports difficulties.
“They play online and it is impossible to constantly check them and go from room to room to see if the lights are off”, former press secretary of the Equipe Tricolore Philippe Tournon is quoted by “20Minutes”.
Lack of sleep among French stars? “There is nothing you can do about it”
“We used to just go to the hotel’s concierge and tell them not to put any more calls through to the players after 10 p.m. But what should we do now? Each of them has a smartphone or two, a tablet, a computer There is nothing you can do about it, “said Tournon.
The French are particularly Antoine Griezmann as a great friend of the video game Fortnite. He is even said to have his xBox with him regularly at away games with FC Barcelona.
A similar problem as the French allegedly plagued the DFB leadership at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The picture had reported during the tournament that some players had sat at the game console until late at night and that national team manager Oliver Bierhoff had therefore switched off the internet in the hotel for at least one night. Germany retired as world champions in the group stage.
Surprisingly, France had to give up the sails at the European Championships as world champions after the round of 16. Les Bleus lost to Switzerland 3: 3 after extra time on penalties.
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