With their departures across the Atlantic, we thought that Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud had finished with their sporting betrayals towards us. And better still, they had until now offered us disappointments made in the USA, with for example the defeat in the League Cup final last August (3-1 against Columbus). We did not know it, but this sweet dream had an expiration date.
Lloris and Giroud export the French win to the States
Facing Sporting Kansas City in the final of the United States Cup, or US Open Cup, Los Angeles FC had every intention of offering the first American title to Lloris and Giroud. And the latter wasted no time in giving the Black and Gold the advantage. Receiving a cross, Olivier opened the scoring after the locker room, and put a first coin in the machine. Enough to convince Didier Deschamps to bring him out of his international retirement and call him back to the French team? It’s only a small step.
If the two teams finally head to extra time, it is Los Angeles FC who win the final against Sporting Kansas City (3-1) and win the US Open Cup final. Not only do Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud win their first American title, but the former captain of the Blues also wins a trophy with his club again. More than twelve years after his last title, a Champions Trophy won with OL in 2012, and whose final took place… in New York. Even back then, the United States were playing a dirty trick on us.
Even on the other side of the world, we are not entitled to happiness.
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