By: EFE Updated 31 Oct 2022, 29: 30 pm EDT
The French midfielder Paul Pogba will not play the next World Cup in Qatar due to a new injury, this time a muscle problem in a thigh, as announced by his lawyer, quoted by the French sports press.
With Pogba, from Juventus, the French world champion team in Russia 2018 loses another benchmark in its midfield, after N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea) had to resign a few weeks ago also due to physical problems.
The announcement comes a few hours after it was reported that that Pogba suffers from muscle overload in his right leg, just when he had returned to training and shortened deadlines for return to the pitch with his team.
Paul Pogba will miss the Qatar 2022 World Cup due to new injury, confirmed by his agent Rafaela Pimenta. 🚨🇫🇷 #Pogba
Pogba has not played one single official game with Juventus since he signed the contract last July. pic.twitter.com/nn04g6xGIX
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) October 31, 2022
The player, of 29 years old, came out of an injury to the right meniscus that has prevented him from playing so far this season with his team.
Pogba and Kanté formed the essential axis of the spinal cord that supported the forward of the “bleus” (Mbappé, Griezmann and Giroud) who in 2018 won the World Cup.
With both absent , the French coach, Didier Deschamps, will have to organize a less experienced midfielder for his call-up, which he will announce on November 9.
Less than a month to get the ball rolling at the World Cup in Qatar, the list of absences due to injury, it is long. With many league games ahead in almost all FIFA member federations, the coaches look closely at each game with one hope: that there are no more players who have to go through by the infirmary.
And it is that, at the moment, the number of names that will not be in the World Cup is large . Few selections are spared. From Brazil, to Portugal passing through England, Argentina and the reigning champion, France. The list is long and can still grow, because there are also many footballers whose presence in Qatar hangs in the balance.
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