Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app.Everything is carefully scripted.An hour or so before kick-off in Dallas on Tuesday, France’s newest superstar will emerge from the tunnel to inspect the pitch.Except this won’t be a normal pitch inspection. It will be a Michael Olise pitch inspection: a languid walk towards the fringe of the playing surface, a couple of scuffs of his trainers on the grass, and a quick glance around the stadium before returning to the sanctuary of the dressing room. Blink and you’ll miss it – at least until it goes viral on social media again.Forty-five minutes or so later, when Olise returns for the warm-up, there will be pink boots, the colourway of choice for the sport’s biggest brands this summer – everywhere you look. But Olise won’t be wearing them – well, not unless France surprise us by playing in pink against Spain. Olise likes his boots to match his kit, which is easy to do when you don’t have a sponsor; wear what you want, when you want.In the warm-up, Olise kicks the ball as high as he can into the air before controlling it effortlessly. On one occasion at Bayern Munich, he nearly took out his manager Vincent Kompany and a television crew with a wayward punt. Sprinting across the pitch in a rare show of panic, Olise arrived just in time, beautifully bringing down a ball with all the softness of your head hitting the pillow after a long day.In another part of his matchday routine, Olise runs, leaps and performs a 360-degree spin in the air in the seconds leading up to kick-off, making him a photographer’s delight (some brilliant images are doing the rounds) and drawing praise from an unlikely source.