2022-11-14
The first concentration of the French team in Clairefontaine ahead of the World Cup in Qatar was not without surprises this Monday.
The ‘Bleus’ unexpectedly summoned Borussia Mönchengladbach striker Marcus Thuram, but they will be without Paris SG defender Presnel Kimpembe, who will be replaced by Monaco’s Axel Disasi.
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Thuram, 25, current second top scorer in the Bundesliga (10 goals), had not been called up by France since the 2021 European Championship, which he played as a substitute.
The son of Lilian Thuram, world champion winger with the ‘Bleus’ in 1998, capped four times in 2020 and 2021, is expected at the Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines training center, on the outskirts of Paris, at the day on Monday, on the first day that the 26 players summoned by the French team that will travel to Qatar will meet.
Thuram has had a good start to the season with Borussia Mönchengladbach, scoring thirteen goals and providing four assists in all competitions.
For his part, Kimpembe is still not recovering from an Achilles tendon injury, so he has been ruled out, the French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Monday.
Kimpembe, 2018 world champion with the French team, played fifteen minutes once more on Sunday with the Parisian club, following having been off the pitch since the end of October.
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But the player himself “does not consider himself sufficiently recovered to be able to maintain his position within the defense of Les Bleus in Qatar,” the FFF said in a statement.
The selectors have until this Monday to transmit their official list to FIFA. France shares Group D of the World Cup with Australia, Tunisia and Denmark.
