“You will discover a new Presnel always ready to defend the colors of the club 100%, with the same courage and the same anger.” At the Canal Football Club microphone, it was a calm and motivated Presnel Kimpembe who returned to his ordeal of a year and a half. Since February 2023 and his injury on the OM pitch, the PSG defender has been going through a real struggle. “I feel very good. Very very good. I have good feelings. I will soon resume with the team collectively. It's been a long year. I never thought about stopping football. I have a ruptured Achilles tendon, it's the worst injury, it's worse than the crusaders for those who don't know. We question everything a little bit but even if people see me a little bit as dead I know it will come back. Never in my life would I have thought that I would go a year and a half, two years without playing, and be so patient waiting every day. In training, I don't know when I'm going to start again. The only thing I wanted was to be with the team, to be with the collective because I had a good year and a half being all alone on the sidelines. I trained when the team finished, it was always a shift. I managed to do what I could to stay as close as possible to the team when traveling in the Champions League by going to all the matches. I was able to give my support and they gave theirs too and I was able to continue to be in that routine of a normal day. »
Very frequent exchanges with Deschamps
Presnel Kimpembe, a player who maintains a real status at PSG since despite being sidelined, he remains a vice-captain of the capital club. So, Kimpembe is determined to defend the institution at all costs, and in particular the club's new project. “We have the opportunity to be able to do something big with a good team which is certainly young but the team is there. If you don't believe in it, get off the boat or get off the train, others will come in your place and we will continue to build, in all the teams, there are great players and competition is normal. I knew him when I arrived. I still know her today and I will still know her tomorrow. It's not a problem. I started with the older ones. I started with Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Marquinhos, Zoumana Camara. I know the competition,” replied Kimpembe.
The PSG defender who also spoke about his relationship with Didier Deschamps, the coach of the France team. The 2018 world champion remains very close to his coach with whom discussions are very regular. “I am in contact with Didier Deschamps every day, I have often spoken with him. For my birthday he sends me messages when I have a match, he sends me messages when I have the chance to see him after a match, when I saw him after Italy he was not happy but I have the chance to talk with him too, he gives me a lot of advice. He also had problems with his Achilles tendon when he was a player so he knows the injury. He knows what it is,” confides the PSG defender, who is therefore getting closer to a return to the highest level.
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To summarize
Presnel Kimpembe, the international defender of PSG, spoke candidly about his ordeal following his injury. The defender nevertheless maintains a very positive mentality and a real desire to get back to his best level.
