Frankfurt striker Randal Kolo Muani is one of the revelations of this start to the season in Germany and is the starter for Les Bleus’ third match against Tunisia.
Called surprise during the gathering of the France team in September during the League of Nations matches, Randal Kolo Muani was called up to play this World Cup in place of the injured Christopher Nkunku. An incredible chance for the Frankfurt striker who will even play the match against Tunisia at the forefront of the Blues attack. He takes advantage of Kylian Mbappé’s slight ankle injury or the small blow received by Olivier Giroud during the match against Denmark.
Randal Kolo Muani is a novice with the Blues. With only 7 selections for hopes, a European championship in 2021 and the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Frenchman had been called up surprise in September 2022 for the League of Nations matches. The key to this call, two selections against Austria (2-0), September 22, and Denmark (0-2), September 25.
Following Nkunku’s injury, the Frankfurt striker will play his first World Cup in Qatar. A dream almost inaccessible as he had explained to Ouest France. “Honestly, I don’t think about it. There, I want to have fun, play my football, enjoy it. And after, refocus in my club and continue to perform as I do. Me, I don’t take my head with that. I’m only in my third season in the pro world. I still have a lot to learn. I’m trying to catch up on the delay that I took. I’m even a little ahead, now
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In an interview with Vista, the player returned to his history and in particular his youth in Italy. “I had done tests in Serie C, then in Serie B (in Vicenza). I was hotter for Serie B because after the national U17s I had nothing left and I didn’t want to continue. I wanted either leave or do something. It’s going well, I’m doing my preparation with them, I’m doing a month. But my father doesn’t feel it, traces the new Blues striker. He’s in town and he calls me: “What’s going on? They’re talking about the contract and everything. He was asking me what it was but I didn’t know anything. I wanted to stay at all costs, I was starting to come out with mythos like ‘this is a an, don’t worry’. He told me ‘it’s not clear at all’.” He told me that I had to go home because school was starting again. I said ‘no, I don’t want to go back’. He had taken me a train ticket for the next day at 10am. I cried all night, end of the dream, says Kolo Muani again. I said to myself: ‘What am I going to do?’. I’m going back to school. Football was over in quotation marks.”
Still in this same interview, Randal Kolo Muani explains that he left “to do a test in Rennes for a week where things are going well. They still had to see me and they called me back for the October holidays, for a new week. At the end of that, they told me there was a similar player with me and they kept him.” For Nantes, the story is made quickly, “my brother announced it to me, telling me that he had good and bad news. The bad thing is that it was dead in Rennes, I was disgusted The good thing is that I had a test on Monday in Nantes. On the third day, I was called by the director of the center. He asked me to write a cover letter for me to sign. I I did this with my brother. I only listened to my parents and my agents. They signed me for seven months.”
Born in Bondy, Randal Kolo Muani comes from a Congolese family and grew up near Villepinte. Its origins are important for the player. “What Congolese do I have? Everything! Good humor. I also like dancing but not necessarily Koffi (the star singer of the country)” he had launched at a press conference when the player was playing on the side of Boulogne sur Mer nationally.
Randal Kolo Muani is also very close to his family and his father. “My dad comes to all the matches, from Villepinte (2h30 drive). Sometimes he is there two or three days before and frankly, it is very important in a career to be well surrounded” also explained the player when he was playing nationally.