Speaking to Téléfoot, Kevin Trapp addressed the mixed start made by Lucas Chevalier (24) at Paris Saint-Germain. Arriving in a heavy context, marked by the legacy of Gianluigi Donnarumma (26), Chevalier is going through an adaptation phase that Trapp knows all too well.
Trapp: “He didn’t give up”
“Given the history with Gianluigi Donnarumma, who was very important in the Champions League victory, his arrival naturally generates a lot of talk. I’m happy for him; I get the feeling he keeps working, he didn’t give up. His match against Marseille will do him a lot of good. He hasn’t lost his qualities, he just needs a bit of time.”
When a goalkeeper speaks about another goalkeeper, the tone changes. There is no posturing, only memory. Kevin Trapp is not defending Lucas Chevalier out of professional reflex, but out of lived experience. In Paris, he went through doubts, the silences of the Parc des Princes, that feeling that every mistake weighs twice as much when you’re in goal. The position creates an invisible form of solidarity: goalkeepers know what it means to “hold on” when everything around you feels unstable.
Chevalier arrives after a Champions League triumph, behind an established starter, in a club where time is never an ally. Trapp points this out without making excuses: work, don’t give up, accept the wait. His performance against Marseille then acts as an internal signal more than a media one. A goalkeeper doesn’t need constant praise, but reference points. Trapp knows it: in Paris, confidence is rebuilt first in the solitude of the position, not in the outside noise.
