“It’s dishonesty”, when the goalkeeper coach of the France team defends Hugo Lloris

Everyone will remember this penalty shootout for a long time, lost to Argentina in the final of the 2022 World Cup. If Aurélien Tchouamenie had missed his penalty, it was mainly on the captain of the team France, Hugo Lloris, that all eyes had been turned. In fact, the goalkeeper had not stopped any shots on goal that evening. An illness that has followed him for many years and for which he has often been mocked.

Two years later, Frank Raviot, goalkeeper coach for the French team, defended his former player: “It bothers me when people talk and don’t know (…) 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”he says in the podcast The Voice of the Guardians.

Before adding: “I know the time we spent, I know the time the video analysts spent sometimes late at night. I know what we set up with Hugo, I know the time 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 happen the way we would have liked it to happen, we are the most unhappy.”