Called to replace Presnel Kimpembe as central defender, Axel Disasi is nevertheless a starter with the Blues against Tunisia as a full-back
In order to make up for Presnel Kimpembe’s package, AS Monaco defender Axel Disasi was called up at the last minute by Didier Deschamps. While he hasn’t played a single minute since the start of the World Cup, the Monegasque will start the match in a right-back position that he knows well. Holder of this position against Red Star Belgrade in the Europa League, but also against Olympique de Marseille on the last day of the championship before the World Cup, Axel Disasi certainly convinced Didier Deschamps to call him. It should also be noted that if the defender is a starter, it is also to prevent Jules Koundé from taking a second yellow card and therefore from being absent for the knockout stages of the Blues.
Axel Disasi currently has no selection with the France team and will therefore be present with the
Blues in Qatar without ever having played a single minute with the Blues. With dual Franco-Congolese nationality, the AS Monaco defender was coveted from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been following his career closely for several years and has already pre-summoned the player, from the 2020-2021 season. But he never wanted to respond favorably. Among young people, he has only three selections with the French U20s, even if he had (already) been called in as reinforcements by the Espoirs coach, Sylvain Ripoll, during Euro 2021. Without ever playing.
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Born in Gonesse, in the suburbs of Paris, Axel Disasi made his debut in the Val d’Oise in Villiers-le-Bel before joining Senlis and then the Paris Football Club academy with which he started in professional football at the age of 15. in Ligue 2. The following summer, in July 2016, he joined the Stade de Reims training center with which he signed his first professional contract and participated in the rise in Ligue 1 during the 2017-2018 season.
Gradually starting in Ligue 1, he won alongside the more experienced Abdelhamid and shone in the eyes of the general public during a season marked by the Covid-19 epidemic. Enough to catch the eye of AS Monaco recruiters, who are offering their services in the summer of 2020 for around 13 million euros. With the Monegasque club, Axel Disasi is progressing and gradually establishing himself as an indisputable holder in the central hinge. He discovers Europe with the ASM and participates in the Europa League, but also in the
preliminary round of the Champions League in the 2022-2023 season. Scorer against PSV Eindhoven, he could not however avoid the elimination of the Principality club in the second leg.
In the summer of 2022, the name of Axel Disasi circulated to strengthen the defense of PSG. Eager to hire Inter Milan stopper Milan Skriniar, the Parisian club had made Disasi its “plan B”, a wish reinforced by Disasi’s capital performance against the Parisians at the end of August 2022 (1-1). But AS Monaco would have addressed an end of inadmissibility to the Parisian club. “It’s always pleasant to be associated with PSG, it’s a very ambitious club but we were coming to the end of the transfer window. There were contacts, it intensified after the match at the Parc des Princes but I felt I was passing a milestone in Monaco, I wanted to continue. I have three years left on my contract, I like England. It’s my favorite league. To choose, I’ll take the place where I can progress the most “, then evoked the player, questioned by RMC Sport.