Away from the football fields for two years now, Samir Nasri has just opened up in detail about his career, his career and his regrets during an exclusive interview with Zack Nani on his show “Zack freewheeling” broadcast on YouTube. The opportunity for the famous 35-year-old footballer to settle accounts once again with Didier Deschamps.
Samir Nasri indeed evokes his career in great detail and looks back on the period during which he was at his peak. At the same time, in 2012, Didier Deschamps became the coach of the France team… but dismisses Samir Nasri, who shines in Manchester City, from his first lists.
“When Deschamps took over the selection in 2012, I was suspended for three games. […] I’m a starter at Manchester City, I’m having a fantastic start to the season, the least you can do is: ‘Give me a call’ and tell me: ‘I’m not selecting you for such and such a reason ‘. I don’t play in Orléans or Quevilly, I play in Manchester City, I’m a starter, I’m playing for the title. Give me a little phone call, don’t take the easy way out of saying: ‘We have the same agent (Jean-Pierre Bernès), and I’m going to pass the message on to him through the agent’. Especially since I spoke with you during the Euro and you told me that I would be someone important.” remembers the former football star.
“He robbed me of my dream”
Almost ten years later, Samir Nasri is still very disappointed not to have been able to participate in the 2014 World Cup, Didier Deschamps having decided not to retain him: “He screwed up my dream. My thing was to to play a World Cup in Brazil as well, the country of football. I had had a furious season, I told myself that I was going to go to Brazil and that I was going to fold the World Cup. I I still believed. We had just been champions, I had scored in the final (of the League Cup): he’s going to take me. When I saw the thing. It’s the World Cup, a Grail, the pinnacle I wanted to play it. When you see the players who go there, I freaked out. When I saw the guys who went there in my place, I said to myself: he really doesn’t care. out of my mouth.”
Despite everything, the former OM player who revealed that he had returned to sport and started paddle, tries to remain “courteous” with the coach of the French team: “I met him in Dubai , not too long ago at the restaurant. He looked at me, then looked away. I got up, I passed in front of his table but I was not going to say to him: ‘Hi, you didn’t see me. taken’. For two years, I had hatred because it was not justified not to play it. Afterwards, it was over. I do not wish him any harm, he has made choices. Tomorrow, if I want to be a coach, this thing might happen to me. I wish him all the happiness in the world, I don’t care. Just, he’s not my friend and I’m not going to say hello to him because I don’t like him as a person.”
Samir Nasri, who announced the end of his career in September 2021, quickly rebounded since he has been since that same date, consultant for the evenings of the Champions League on Canal +. He thus joined the team of Rudi Garcia and Éric Abidal on the sets hosted by Hervé Mathoux.
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