Thierry Henrya French soccer legend formerly of Arsenal and Barcelona, have been appointed coach of his country in the Under-21 category, where he will compete, among other tournaments, in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he can lead Kylian Mbappé.
The executive committee of French Football Federation (FFF) chose almost unanimously Henry in front of sabri lamouchi (ex of Cardiff City, Nottingham Forest and Rennes), announced the French sports press before the official announcement.
Henry will replace Sylvain Ripoll, who was dismissed in July for an early exit from the European sub-21s. Currently 46 years old, Henry has been a television commentator for the past few months. In 2021 and 2022 he was second to the Spaniard Roberto Martínez in the Belgian team.
The famous forward, who became world champion in France in 1998, also coached Montreal Impact (of the US MSL) and Monaco, the highest ranked club he led in 2018-2019 with careful results.
Under 21s, a category in which France is full of talent, the big challenge is the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, where Kylian Mbappé has expressed his desire to participate within the quota for those over 23 years old where each group has rights.
Before his facet as a coach and commentator, Henry had a great career as a footballer. Considered one of the best strikers in the world in the 2000s, “Titi” was trained in Monaco, like Mbappé; he played briefly for Juventus in Turin; and in 1999 he signed for Arsène Wenger’s Arsenal, whom he met at Monaco.
He became a legend of the English Arsenal, where he won two league titles in his eight seasons, and, at the end of his career at the highest level, he had a remarkable spell at Barcelona, where he finally won the League. of Champions in 2009. He hung up his boots in 2014 with the New York Red Bulls.
With the French national team he was, since 2009, his best all-time scorer (51 goals in 123 games) until Olivier Giroud surpassed him at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Henry won the 1998 World Cup, the 2000 Euro Cup and was world runner-up in 2006
Source: La Verdad
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