France star Ibrahima Konate shuts down Thomas Tuchel claim ahead of England clash

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Well, it’s true that, given the aim and objective we had, we wanted to play the final.“But we are still representing France and it is the dream of many people to wear the shirt, the jersey, and sing the national anthem.“Therefore we need to respect the jersey we are wearing. If we believe that this is a duty of ours, we will play with the best team in the same way we did at the start of this competition.“As a player, we want to win for ourselves before wanting to win for anyone else but it is true we want to pay back the French coach.

We are disappointed, we didn’t want to play this third place playoff, but it is still England v France, there is great history. He added: “When it comes to our supporters, we were the favourites when we started the WC, the individual players, the group we have, some players who weren’t selected.“I believe worldwide many fans believe we could have built two or three teams at this WC and still deliver great performances.“We lost against Spain who are the European champion.

We are disappointed but we lost to a great team.“They might be crowned a World Cup winner. Therefore we can say we lost to the best.