It's so hard to know about athletes we don't know, but he truly seems like a good dude. It's important to me that I root for teams of good people, so he's one of the guys I really do root for.
Maxime Chanot [Defender]
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It's so hard to know about athletes we don't know, but he truly seems like a good dude. It's important to me that I root for teams of good people, so he's one of the guys I really do root for.
Chanot, le Frenchie champion de MLS : "Ma carrière est digne d’un film hollywoodien"
À 32 ans, Maxime Chanot est devenu le premier Français à remporter le championnat américain le 11 décembre. Entretien avec un revanchard.
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Good interview. There are multiple nuggets of info we have not known before. The auto translation is charming.
For all the crap we have slung at Lampard, Chanot's comments make me really like the guy.Chanot, le Frenchie champion de MLS : "Ma carrière est digne d’un film hollywoodien"
À 32 ans, Maxime Chanot est devenu le premier Français à remporter le championnat américain le 11 décembre. Entretien avec un revanchard.
Good interview. There are multiple nuggets of info we have not known before. The auto translation is charming.
We also spend a lot of time debating which league MLS is or isn't better than. Interesting that he thinks MLS > Belgium and that most NYCFC players would play (start?) on mid-table Ligue 1 teams.
better than belgium I can almost guarantee is true. Belgium is like what, top 8? Their bottom half teams are not good at all.
I've never seen anything that suggests he wasn't a solid to exemplary teammate while here.
My charitable take on his arrival is that he never did anything but what his employers asked of him. I'm not sure that's 100% true (eg, he might have asked to spend a half season at Man City instead of Melbourne like Villa did so he could get paid more sooner) but I'm not 100% sure it's not true either. Even if true, he knowingly participated in a deceptive first appearance where the league and club announced that he had signed a MLS contract when he had not and he knew that. On top of that, he seemed not to understand why NYC fans would blame him for not coming for the start of 2015 as promised, and he clung to the "I just did what they asked" defense. There's a level of cluelessness there I can't credit.
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Agreed. And his self-awareness was so off that even after getting here, when he unable to play during injury, he would post a NYC touristy picture almost every day which was salt in the wounds to the supporters. I think the club was even compelled to create that behind the scenes getting back to health video to justify that he was doing something other than visiting Central Park and the Bronx Zoo with his family.
There was the whole visiting with Chelsea fans thing at the Chelsea bar while he had been injured for a while following his delayed arrival as well.
Which I personally had no issue with. But the optics of it were completely terrible and as you mentioned, just atrocious self-awareness.
One of my favorite "translations" ;Chanot, le Frenchie champion de MLS : "Ma carrière est digne d’un film hollywoodien"
À 32 ans, Maxime Chanot est devenu le premier Français à remporter le championnat américain le 11 décembre. Entretien avec un revanchard.
Good interview. There are multiple nuggets of info we have not known before. The auto translation is charming.
"You are then only 21 years old, but you explain that this injury will precipitate your "descent into hell". Why ?
MC: I had so much more money that I had asked a friend to lend me his pair of shoes in size 42 for this match, while I'm wearing a size 44. It must have played in the severity of my injury. because I was all farted, from the metatarsals of the foot to the malleolus."
Damn foot farts getting in the way of metatarsal rehab.
Also is "going coal" French for going ham?
Love Maxime, but his thoughts on Ligue 1 would be more powerful if he had played a single game in that league.
damn. gotta feel bad for chanot. i know he's at the point in his life that he's starting to maybe think about retirement but this type of injury probably speeds all that along. didn't know his injury was serious enough that he lost vision in his left eye temporarily. wearing a mask while you play is probably annoying as hell.
hope it is not so annoying and he can continue to get solid minutes this season and help us win more silverware.
New York City Football Club Defender Maxime Chanot Signs New Three-Year Contract | New York City FC
New York, N.Y., May 16, 2022 – New York City Football Club (NYCFC) today announced that Defender Maxime Chanot has signed a new three-year contract with the Club through the 2024 season. The Luxembourg international is the longest-serving player at NYCFC after joining from Belgian-side K.V...
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Chanot and Luxembourg face off against Portugal live on FS2 at 2:30.
Chanot starting at LCB. Martins (Marvin) starting at RCB.
Ronaldo starting for Portugal.
Chanot starting at LCB. Martins (Marvin) starting at RCB.
Ronaldo starting for Portugal.
