Defender of FC Barcelona but alsoFrench team with which he has 36 selections, Jules Koundé has gradually made his mark in the panorama of world football to the point of becoming a reference in his position. Passed by the U19s of Bordeaux before turning out to be with the first team and then flying to Spain, the 26-year-old revealed that he could have joined another historic French football club when he was younger. Guest of the fourth episode of the YouTube series “ The Bridge » proposed by the ESN Media channel, he returned to the surprising reason which pushed a recruiter from FC Sochaux to draw a line under his profile.
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« Before returning to the Girondins de Bordeaux training center, I did a test in Sochaux. A recruiter had been following me for some time and offered to do a test. He came to pick me up at my house very early in the morning, it was still a 10 or 11 hour drive if we stopped. I've always been a heavy sleeper, and I slept the whole way, just waking up to eat. Afterwards, I went back to sleep until we arrived. I stay a few days, I train, I play a match. I'm not exceptional, but that's okay, I'm not doing too badly. In the end, the test was negative and therefore I did not sign for Sochaux. And in fact, I learned later from my coach at the time at Brède that one of the reasons why I was not taken was that the recruiter had found the fact that I slept throughout the ride very disrespectful. They might have thought I was banged up, but I was told that the recruiter didn't really like it. »
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