French central defender Presnel Kimbembe is out due to injury for the World Cup in Qatar and will be replaced by Axel Disasi, from AS Monaco, the French Football Federation announced on Monday.
Kimpembe, a Paris Saint Germain player and a fixture since 2018 in Didier’s calls Deschamps, has not sufficiently recovered from an Achilles tendon injury, the Federation said in a statement.
Undisputed starter at PSG, Kimbembe (27 years and 28 internationalities) will see how his place is taken by Disasi, who to his 24 Years he has not been called up by the senior team, although he has been called up by the lower categories of the national team.
This announcement came a few minutes after the Federation announced that Deschamps has called the attacker Marcus Thuram, from Borussia de Moenchengladbach, to complete the list of 26 players that can be called.
The French team began their concentration in Clairefontaine on Monday for the World Cup, which will start next Sunday. Karim Benzema, Eduard Camavinga, Adrien Rabiot, Kingsley Coman, Benjamin Pavard, Jules Kounde, are some of the footballers who joined the training in France.
The French national coach, Didier Deschamps, summoned striker Marcus Thuram at the last minute to complete the list for the World Cup in Qatar, which begins next Sunday.
HARD LOW FOR THE FRANCE NATIONAL TEAM!
📌 The last world champion announced that Kimpembe is not fully recovered from his injury and misses the World Cup in #Qatar
🔄 Axel Disasi, from Monaco, will be his replacement pic.twitter.com/8SFaAM6UnS
— SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) November 14, 2022
The Borussia Moenchengladbach player will be the man 26 from Didier Deschamps’ list, which initially only called 25 players p to try to defend the world title won in Russia four years ago.
The deadline for communicating the final call ends at night and the French Football Federation announced this morning the call to Thuram, who will join the concentration in Clairefontaine.
Marcus Thuram, from 24 years and son of the world champion in 1998 Lilian Thuram, had not been called up by Deschamps for the national team since the European Championship in 2018 (disputed in 2021) and so far he has accumulated four games with the France shirt.
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