Olivier Giroud starts again from Lille.
Last game with the Los Angeles FC, before flying to France where it is expected to sign the contract. The best scorer in the history of the French national team (57 goals in 137 appearances) confirmed that he was about to play for the northern team of France after the defeat of Los Angele FC against Vancouver (1-0).
“I hope to be useful to the team, a leader and someone who puts the binder on the field and outside the young people, explained the 2018 world champion. I am excited to play the European League. Lille is a great club in France, one of the five best,” he said. After saying goodbye to the national team last year, the 38 -year -old left Milan for what seemed to be a last engagement in the Californian city. But his sporting experience with the Californian club was not up to his expectations, with only three goals in the regular season of the MLS, the North American football League. “When I had the opportunity to return to France, I took it,” said the former Arsenal player (2012-2018) and Chelsea (2018-2021), who said he was “very motivated by this new challenge”.
“I did it to be closer to my family, to my friends, go back to a championship that I left thirteen years ago.
The French public is happy that Paul Pogba and I return to the French championship. If I asked me a few years ago, I would have replied that this was not the plan. But you never know. ”
Giroud is expected in the north “mid -week”, according to a source close to Lille.
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