Como's Butez earns first France call-up

From Serie A gloves to Les Bleus radar

Butez has been Como's first-choice goalkeeper as the club settles into life in Serie A, and that consistency has clearly registered somewhere higher up the food chain. A senior France call-up doesn't happen because a keeper had one good weekend. It happens because someone in Clairefontaine has been watching for a while.

France don't exactly lack options between the sticks, which makes this call-up feel less like a squad-filler and more like a genuine nod to form. For a goalkeeper plying his trade in Italy rather than Ligue 1 or the Premier League, it means the performances have travelled far enough to get noticed by people picking the squad.

Why now

Football Italia's report doesn't spell out which competition window this call-up falls under, and France's official squad list hadn't been published with matching detail at the time of writing. The timing lines up with Como's early-season Serie A campaign, where a reliable goalkeeper has been part of the club's foundation as they try to establish themselves at the top level. Butez turning up on a France squad list is the kind of story that tends to get noticed inside a dressing room too: it tells teammates their No.1 is being watched by people who matter.

What it means for Como

For Como, this is a quiet flex. A club still building its identity in Serie A now has a player being talked about in a senior international context, which is useful currency in a division where reputation and recruitment often move together. It's the sort of headline that gets forwarded around agent circles.

For Butez himself, the next step is concrete: whether Didier Deschamps hands him a place on the bench or in training with the senior group during this window. Goalkeepers don't often get talked about in glowing, front-page terms. This is Butez's chance to turn a first call-up into a second one.