Franck Raviot, goalkeeper coach of the French team, defends Hugo Lloris in the face of criticism that has long accompanied him over his difficulties in taking penalties or taking shots on goal.
Hugo Lloris (38) ended his immense career in the French team with a lost penalty shootout. It was December 18, 2022 during the memorable World Cup final lost by the France team against Argentina (3-3, 4 tab 2). That day, the captain of the Blues – who had announced his international retirement a few days later – had not diverted any Argentine attempt and somewhat revived criticism of his difficulties in being decisive in the exercise.
“I know how much time Hugo spent in front of screens decoding, deciphering”
A little over two years later, Franck Raviot, goalkeeper coach of the France team, defended the former Lyonnais. “It bothers me when people talk and don’t know,” he laments in the podcast The Voice of the Guardians. “It bothers me very much because it’s not clumsiness, it’s misplaced dishonesty. I read because I read and I inform myself a lot.”
“I know what we did,” he defends himself. “I know the time we spent, I know the time the video analysts spent sometimes late at night. I know what we put in place with Hugo, I know the time that Hugo spent in front of the screens decoding, deciphering, noting down. Sometimes, when we do everything and it goes well, we are the happiest. Sometimes, when we do everything and it doesn’t go our way. would have liked it to happen, we are the most unhappy.”
A few days after the cruel defeat of the Blues in the World Cup final, the current Los Angeles FC goalkeeper admitted not having been comfortable during his career during penalties.
“Generally speaking, I haven’t been very successful in my career in this exercise (he didn’t stop any of the nine penalties suffered against Switzerland at Euro 2021 and Argentina at the Cup of the world 2022, editor’s note), he continues. That didn’t stop me from saving important penalties, and I won some penalty shootouts, but I lost a lot of them, too. guards who are more successful than others. In fact, there are things that I don’t know how to do. Playing stupid for the purpose, ostensibly destabilizing the opponent by playing with the limit, I don’t know how to do it. I’m too rational, too honest to go on that level. I don’t know how to win like that, even if I really didn’t want to lose like that, either…”
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