Mercato: A captain of the team ends up at OM!

Mercato: A captain of the team ends up at OM!
Mercato: A captain of the France team ends up at OM!
Bernard Colas

Journalist

Passionate about sport, cinema and television (on screen and behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for 10 Sport since 2018. More skilled with the keyboard in hand than with the ball on his feet, he decides to mainly cover a beloved sport, criticized and hated at the same time (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).

Adrien Rabiot is preparing to celebrate his eight years in the French team, he who now benefits from a new status as leader among the Blues, reinforced after the recent departures of Olivier Giroud and Antoine Griezmann, not to mention the absence by Kylian Mbappé. The French international surprised in September by signing up with OM.

Over the months, the French team lost many of its executives. After Hugo Lloris et Raphaël Varane in the wake of the 2022 World Cup, it is Olivier Giroud Then Antoine Griezmann who have decided to retire internationally. And Didier Deschamps must also do without the services of Kylian Mbappé since October for a still mysterious reason, enough to allow certain players to change their status.

Rabiot new leader among the Blues

This is particularly the case by Adrien Rabiotcalled up for the first time in November 2016 and which totals 48 selections. He will be one of the five most capped players in the group selected by Didier Deschamps to confront Israel and Italy as highlighted The Parisianspecifying that the player trained in PSGis seen as a leader, respected by his teammates through his gestures and his outspokenness.

“He’s someone who doesn’t hide”

« He's someone who doesn't hide », confides a close friend of the group, interviewed by The Parisian. In September, Adrien Rabiot had surprised by joining Olympique de on a free basis, a few weeks after the end of his contract with Juventus. A late arrival which had caused him to miss the last two gatherings.

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