A player from France declared himself an admirer of Lewandowski

Randal Kolo Muani, a player for Eintracht Frankfurt, did not have a brilliant debut with the French team at the Qatar World Cup on Wednesday and acknowledged that he was burdened with the responsibility, like the rest of his teammates, and that they played “with the brakes on the hand set” before Tunisia.

But the attacker hopes to have more opportunities and made sure that even from a match like this there are lessons to be learned, as he has been doing since he arrived in Qatar on an impossible journey from Japan, where with he his club when Didier Deschamps called him to replace the injured Christophe Nkunku.

Muani, who turns 24 next Monday, has his eyes wide open, as if he wants to learn everything a World Cup has to offer him.

“Every day you learn something, I’m in my third professional season and there are many things where I can improve,” said the French forward, who among his sources of inspiration is Robert Lewandowski, the leader of a Polish team against which Next Sunday, France will play in the quarterfinals.

Kudos to Lewy

“Of course he is a source of inspiration, he is one of the best forwards in the world and he has many goals. He is a striker, but also a player who is comfortable with the ball at his feet, despite his height. We have to watch him closely,” he said.

The Polish goal-scoring instinct is one of the aspects that Kolo Muani envies the most about the Barcelona striker and is also one of the aspects in which he considers the margin for his development to be greater.

“When I find myself in front of the goal, I have to learn to keep my cool,” said Muani, who in his first season at Eintracht has already scored 7 goals, putting him in Deschamps’ crosshairs .

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The coach surprised him by calling him when Nkunku was injured and other names like Nebil Fekir or Wissam ben Yedder came up.

Now, the young French striker wants to open a space in a team where chances count. He debuted in a World Cup against Tunisia because, at the last moment, Marcus Thuram felt ill and could not occupy the ‘9’ position.

“I fulfilled a dream I had since I was a child,” said the striker, who also discovered that a World Cup goes faster than any other competition. “There’s more intensity than clubs, less sloppy checks. You have to be more focused,” he said.

He knows his debut isn’t a good example of that, but insists his goal is to learn.

two home teachers

At home he has two teachers, like Olivier Giroud and Kylian Mbappé. “It’s a luxury to be able to talk to them about details in the field,” he declared. When the first made his national team debut, Randal Kolo Muani was only twelve years old and listening to his words today is a very valuable lesson.

He shares a generation with the second, but things have gone faster in the Parisian’s career.

“Kylian has been in the national team for many years and more than that he is a very important player. I have no doubt that he is one of the leaders”, highlighted Kolo Muani.