# World Cup player reflects on selection doubts and recovery

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2072315473631297947
- Source account: [@beinsports_FR](https://x.com/beinsports_FR)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:05
- Published: 2026-07-01
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/fr/mondial-un-joueur-revient-sur-ses-doutes-et-sa-s%C3%A9lection.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery) I'm happy to be here, because if you see how my season went, normally I should never have been here at the World Cup.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=9) So for me, being here, playing, helping my team, being decisive in a match, it's great.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=18) For me, it was just being here, the fact of being here, that was the thing, because until the end of April, there were still doubts.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=30) As to whether I would be selected or not.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=34) I had a conversation with the coach, which remains private, I told him that if I managed to get in shape, I think I can do it.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=48) He was there for a few sessions I had in early May, where he saw that I was training in Brussels.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=56) He came to watch. I knew what my role was.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=61) Being here, for me, is already a blessing.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2QCxKPJY4iuw/en/world-cup-player-reflects-on-selection-doubts-and-recovery?t=63) I'm happy.