Two months were enough for Lassana Diarra to scan five years of disenchantment with the team of France. Two months when the former player of Arsenal, Chelsea and Real Madrid has risen in the eyes of the French public, in the colors of his new club, Olympique de Marseille. The result is a return to selection for the matches of Armenia and Denmark (8 and 11 October) that almost sounds obvious given the impressive level of play displayed by the defensive midfielder with 28 caps, the last in 2010 .
Sunday at the 9 th of Ligue 1 against PSG, Lassana Diarra seemed the only Marseille can compete with the length with Parisian celebrities. Accustomed to outclass their opponents, both Italians and Thiago Motta Marco Verratti experienced the worst difficulties facing the enormous activity of the one we nicknamed “Lass”.
He slams the door in 2013
The announcement of his international retirement in 2013 seems far away. At that time exiled in Russia, first in Anji Makhatchkalaa, then at Lokomotiv Moscow, this character player had decreed that he no longer would carry the tricolor jersey, tired of having no been called since the selection August 2010 and a friendly in Norway (2-1).
His relationship with the Blues had started out with a bang. Lassana Diarra had become incumbent on the orders of Raymond Domenech in the midfield of the team of France in 2007. It was a twist of fate that had transformed this love story in painful break: his international career was stopped net during the preparatory course at the 2010 World Cup because of a blood disease (SCD).
Despite fifteen months without playing football before his arrival on the Canebière, the kid of the 20 th district of Paris serenely takes this turn, unexpected yet there is still little. “It is a pride for me, I am very happy, it was long. The France team that goes through good club performances, he first had to find the pleasure and sensations, is ongoing, and the best is to come. Compared to the France team, I had a sense of incompleteness. Then I’m happy, I saw, I replay in football … “ just he says.
Asked about his (false) early retirement, Lassana Diarra finally turns back to the past . “There were many things that happened, I am a tormented soul. But the past is the past. There have been many misunderstandings and frustrations but now my energy is focused on the future. When one has experienced what I have experienced past two months is a pleasure to be here to bring what I can do for France. I’m not in the calculation, “ starts the thirties.
Maturity
It will of course compare this festival of good will to reality Competition and group life. The post of sentinel before the defense, two players have already settled: Yohan Cabaye especially happened after the fiasco of the 2010 World Cup and, to a lesser extent, Morgan Schneiderlin called before the World Cup 2014
Difficult. therefore for coach Didier Deschamps the red carpet to Diarra, who also asked not to it. “The players have been together for three years, there is a bandwagon and it’s up to me to adapt, to find benchmarks and to get involved,” , confirming Diarra. When Deschamps says the same thing: “I’m not going to stick a status. There is competition, he knows and he’s used to. He must find his place in the group. “
On Thursday, in the grounds of the Allianz Riviera Nice, neo-Marseillais will in any case holder. With the package of Paul Pogba, there should be the trident company midfielder Cabaye and Matuidi. The first step towards achieving its goal: “A Euro in France, in my country, it is a goal. “
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