World champion with the French team of which he remains the top scorer, the striker Olivier Giroud has just signed in LOSC from the Los Angeles FC. The Frenchman will find Ligue 1, 13 years old after his title of champion of France with Montpellier.
The 2025-2026 season is marked by returns. After Paul Pogba at AS Monaco, Olivier Giroud will find Ligue 1 lawns, wearing the colors of LOSC. At 38, the one who managed to win a title of champion of France in Montpellier is ready for a new challenge.
A shocking record
Thirteen years after his last match in Ligue 1, it was hard to believe that Olivier Giroud was going to find the lawns. The Grenoblois, in difficulty at Los Angeles FC alongside Hugo Lloris, could have ended his career under palm trees and the Californian heat.
But the most prolific striker of the Blues, with 57 goals on the clock, is still a lover of competition. And this, even after winning everything: the Champions League in 2021 and the Europa League in 2019 with Chelsea, champion of France in 2013, champion of Italy in 2022 with AC Milan and even winner of the United States Cup of Soccer.
The 2018 world champion gave a conference this Wednesday, with the president of LOSC Olivier Létang, where he arrived with a blue costume and a shirt to answer questions from journalists.
“It was important to end my career in France. It was perhaps not the goal a few years ago. And the fact of getting closer to the family, my friends, to find a country that I like, which is mine, with all the capital of sympathy and the love of the French. Lille checked a lot of boxes, not to say all. So, I am very happy and excited,” he said.
Olivier Giroud, who will carry the number 9, says “in shape and excited” to the idea of ​​competing in the Europa League with the LOSC.
