{"id":2282,"date":"2024-07-24T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympic-football-ten-players-to-watch-at-paris-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T05:39:11","slug":"olympic-football-ten-players-to-watch-at-paris-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympic-football-ten-players-to-watch-at-paris-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic football: Ten players to watch at Paris 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thierry Henry has selected Alexandre Lacazette to captain France at their home Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all have the same ambition, to go all the way and win a medal,&#8221; the 33-year-old said. &#8220;The fact that it\u2019s a home Games is really going to motivate us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lyon forward hasn&#8217;t played for his country since 2017 but scored 22 goals in 35 games for the Ligue 1 club last season, showing he is still in good form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sevilla&#8217;s Loic Bade is another overage inclusion, along with Crystal Palace forward Jean-Philippe Mateta, who is the only Premier League player in the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kylian Mbappe, who had hoped to be part of the squad as an overage player, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourfourtwo.com\/news\/why-isnt-kylian-mbappe-at-the-olympics\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">is not involved<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> &#8211; as his new club Real Madrid did not want any of their players taking part at the Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cek91m98g48o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Henry has selected Alexandre Lacazette to captain France at their home Games. &#8220;We all have the same ambition, to go all the way and win a medal,&#8221; the 33-year-old said. &#8220;The fact that it\u2019s a home Games is really going to motivate us.&#8221; The Lyon forward hasn&#8217;t played for his country since 2017 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}