The new French international of Algerian origin, Michael Olise, has angered Algerian fans due to a strange response to the interest of… Algeria The Algerian Football Federation offered his services earlier, and the Bayern Munich star acted in a manner close to mockery when he responded to a question in this regard.
The coach of “Les Bleus”, Didier Deschamps, invited the player. Bayern Munich For the first time this month, he will participate in the French national team camp in preparation for the matches against Italy and Belgium in the European Nations League, thus ending the controversy once and for all regarding the possibility of him wearing the Algerian national team jersey.
Olise (22 years old), who is of Algerian origin on his mother’s side, was among the plans of the Algerian Football Federation in the past period, and his family was talked to about wearing the Algerian national team jersey, but he preferred France, whose under-23 team he represented a few weeks ago in the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The former Crystal Palace star shone, and moved to Bayern Munich this summer in a record deal worth around 60 million euros, with a five-year contract, amid speculation that he will shine with the Bavarian club in the near future.
And shares The player The owner of Algerian origins on his mother’s side, Nigerian on his father’s side, French by virtue of his Algerian mother’s (second) nationality, and English by virtue of his birthplace, in the French U-23 team reaching the final of the football competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics, which they lost to Spain with a score of (5-3), where Olise participated in 6 matches, during which he scored two goals and provided 4 assists.
Michael Olise mocks the “Greens” in a strange way
On Tuesday, September 3, the Bayern star had an appointment with the French media to answer questions about his choice to play for the national team. FranceOne of them was concerned about whether he had received a call from the Algerian Football Federation to play for the Algerian national team, before Olis responded in a way that many Algerians described as “sarcastic” and “disrespectful.”
The player simply nodded his head several times to the question and answered “yes” without giving any further details. The behaviour and movements of the former Crystal Palace star made his French national team teammate and Sevilla star, Loic Badie, laugh, which increased the anger of the Algerian fans, who could not digest the young player’s behaviour.
The skillful winger was for a long time on the Algerian Football Federation’s plans, and contact was made with his family, his agents and himself to convince him to play with the “Greens”, but he was procrastinating every time to provide a final answer, although he was not closing the door completely.
Oliseh’s response to the truth of the Algerian Federation’s contacts
The strange thing is that the player denied his Algerian origins and justified his choice of the French national team, saying: “My mother came from France. Since I was young, I used to travel with her to this country and wear the French national team shirt,” in a statement that shocked Algerians, because his mother’s origins are Algerian and she only holds French citizenship.
In contrast, the French tried to justify Olise’s actions and strange answers during the press conference on Tuesday, by saying that he does not speak French well, given that he was born and raised in England, praising the effort he made to answer the media’s questions in French, which he does not speak well.
