2024-01-09 05:55:05
It’s like good wine. Often referred to his age, especially when it comes time for debates around the role of starting number 9 in the French team, Olivier Giroud demonstrates exceptional longevity at the highest level. At 37 years old (he will be 38 on September 30), the man who is still enjoying good days at AC Milan this season, scored this Sunday, against Empoli on a penalty, one of his team’s three goals ( 0-3), bringing his total achievements to 10 in 22 matches played in all competitions.
10 goals, a level that the native of Chambéry has, according to statistics published by Opta in La Gazzetta Dello Sport this Monday morning, reached in each of his last 14 seasons, all since his arrival in Montpellier in the summer of 2010. Still according to Opta, no other player from the five biggest European championships has done better since this 2010-2011 season.
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His most prolific season remains that of the title with the Héraultais, with 25 goals. Since his arrival at AC Milan in 2021, he has scored 14 goals in his first season, 18 last season and therefore already 10 this season. With 9 goals in Serie A (and one in the Champions League, against PSG), Olivier Giroud is, to date, the 2nd top scorer in the Italian championship, behind Lautaro Martinez (16) and tied with Domenico Berardi. Enough to convince Milan to keep him? The French international reaches the end of his contract next June. “I want to continue, and I think I have what it takes to do that,” he confided to JDD last November.
In total in his long and successful career, which notably saw him win a Champions League and, obviously, a World Cup, Olivier Giroud played 552 matches for 222 goals scored, clubs and selections combined.
He is still, until Kylian Mbappé undoubtedly surpasses him, the record holder for goals in the French team, with 56 goals scored in 129 selections, a figure which remains likely to evolve as long as Olivier Giroud continues to perform and therefore to give excellent reasons to Didier Deschamps to maintain his confidence in him.
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