After his team’s silver medal at the Paris Olympic Games, Thierry Henry still has something stuck in his throat…
An international football star with an impressive track record with the French team or with his clubs Arsenal or FC Barcelona, Thierry Henry is now a very well-known face in the audiovisual world, with a highly appreciated consulting role and notable interventions. and listened to by many people.
He took on this role after taking on the role of coach of the French junior team, in search of Olympic gold. Unfortunately, despite a fairly fabulous run and a team clearly in symbiosis with its coach, the Blues lost in the final, against Spain, still taking home the silver.
If Thierry Henry has very good memories of this Olympic journey, he never stops talking about his bitterness about these Olympics and his lack of a medal. Because if the players were rewarded, he and his staff were not able to leave with the slightest trinket. A misunderstanding depending on who goes “against the spirit of the Olympic Games.”
Thierry Henry is not upset that the coaches and all the athletes’ trainers are also not entitled to Olympic medals. And not just for football. “Why didn’t the coaches of Léon Marchand and Teddy Riner also receive medals?” he asks himself in particular in GQ.
“It is the reward of a group with its players, but also that of their physical trainer, their assistant, their doctor and their physiotherapists, who go to bed at 4 a.m. then get up at 8 a.m. They do not have the same salaries than the players and also deserve a medal Since the start of the competition, we kept repeating: ‘we are together’, and in the end we were not.
Thierry Henry never really has his tongue in his pocket and always very often says what he thinks. This was also the case in the middle of the Paris Games, when he also expressed his disappointment about the attitude of his own players, in the semi-final of the Olympics against the Argentinians. Several players had in fact pointedly teased their opponents and their supporters at the end of the match.
“When you win like we did on the second goal, we thought there was a goal. You come, you celebrate your goal, you come back, there’s no point in going to bother the Argentinians. We’re is missed, no class Now, put that aside”, had launched the coach as shown by a retrospective of the epic of the France team.