There are many players in football today who are all-rounders in the back line, such as Pavard and Lucas Hernandez, who play for Bayern Munich, who can play both full-back and central defender, and both players are Teammates of the French national team. Earlier, French football had produced a top defensive all-rounder, lilian Thuram. Thuram is arguably one of the founders of the pinnacle of French football, a key right-back for France to win the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000, and his career has played for top giants such as Juventus and Barcelona. His two sons, Marcus Thuram and Kafran Thuram, inherited his football genes, especially Marcus Thuram, who played for Borussia Moncheng, who has become a French international, and both Thuram and his father have contributed to French football.
Lilian Thuram was born on 1 January 1972 in Guadeloupe, a French province. Located in the middle of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, Guadeloupe was exposed to football on the streets and beaches since childhood. In 1981, at the age of 9, Thuram moved with his family to Fontainebleau, a southeastern suburb of Paris, France, and joined a local club in Fontainebleau, where he started as an attacking midfielder and then gradually changed to a defender, with his main positions at centre-back and right-back. Thuram, who had performed well on the field, quickly attracted the attention of professional scouts, and in 1990, Thuram joined the Monaco youth academy.
It is worth mentioning that Thuram studied very hard when he was a child, and suffered from myopia when he was a teenager, which led to the need for him to wear contact lenses when playing football. When he grew up, Thuram was also a reading player, and he didn't like to party. In particular, some of the classic literary masterpieces are books that Thuram likes to read very much, and his literary attainments are later second to none in the French national team.
In 1991, at the age of 19, Thuram made his first-team debut in Monaco, when monaco was coached by legendary French coach Arsena Wenger. Thuram made only one appearance in his first season in Monaco, and although he won the 1990–1991 French Cup with the team, Thuram was not on the roster at the time. In the 1991–1992 season, Thuram was officially promoted to the first team, and then gradually gained a foothold in Monaco and became the main defender of the team, Thuram with the team reached the final of the 1991-1992 European Cup Winners' Cup, but unfortunately lost to Werder Bremen and was second. Thuram's outstanding performance in Monaco attracted the attention of the French national team, and on August 17, 1994, Thuram made his debut for the French national team in a warm-up match against the Czech Republic.
Thuram as a defender didn't score many goals in his career. In the 1993–1994 Champions League, Monaco's 4-1 win over Sparta Moscow scored Thuram's only goal in the Champions League. In total, Thuram played for the Monaco first team for 6 seasons, making 185 appearances for the Monaco first team in all competitions, scoring 10 goals. At the 1996 European Championship, Thuram ushered in the first major competition of his national team career, he started four times in this European Championship, helped France reach the semi-finals, that is, from this European Championship, Thuram gradually locked in his main position at right-back in France.