A French Madrid

Although the summer market for the 2020-21 season is still open, Madrid are already thinking about the sweet transition of a legendary team. For this you need spare parts, but not just any will do. For this it has indicated three players as first targets: Mbappé (21 years old), Camavinga (17) and Upamecano (21). If their incorporations occur Madrid would become the backbone of the French team for the next decade. These three signings would be added to the three French who are already in the first team: Benzema (32 years), Mendy (25) and Varane (27). Precisely, the latter made his debut with the elastic bleu being already a madridista player. It would be the most French Madrid in history, adding the presence of Zidane, his assistant David Bettoni and the physical trainer Grégory Dupont.

The crush between Madrid and Mbappé comes from afar. Since he exploded at Monaco in the 2016-17 campaign, due to his performances in both Ligue1 and the Champions League. However, in the end he signed for PSG. But have been the explosions of Upamecano and Camavinga the ones that most attract attention: the two have debuted with the French shirt on this day of the League of Nations.

The first has participated in the two meetings of the Deschamps. Against Sweden he formed a line of three with Varane and Kimpembe, while against Croatia he aligned himself in the same way with Lenglet and Lucas Hernández. Always occupying the right flank. In addition, he scored his first goal with a good header. Despite the fact that his name has come out in recent times due to his formidable performance against Atlético in the Champions League, Zidane knows him quite well. Dayot was the bodyguard of his son Luca in the U-17 European Championship that the French team won in 2015 in Bulgaria. Then he participated in all the games (he started in five of the six games: in the third of the first phase, coming off the bench to play 25 minutes against Greece) that they played Les Bleus and helped clear Luca's goal in four games.

Too Camavinga's outbreak a year ago put the spotlight on the young French midfielder. Like Upamecano, has also debuted in this national team break: he played just over 30 minutes against Croatia with a positive balance: he gave 21 passes, had a 95% success rate in the pass, with a shot on goal (stopped by the goalkeeper), three recovered balls and won two duels. The striking thing about his debut is that he did it with just 17 years and nine months … when he could have done much before: a fire in his house burned his official documents, having to start the accreditation process all over again. Three signings, three key pieces of the French team. Three goals for Real Madrid …