Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Saturday April 02, 2022 at 10:16 p.m.
During the World Cup in Qatar, the Blues, defending champions, will be accommodated in a luxurious hotel west of Doha. And they hope to stay there for a long time…
“We’re going to be here a long time.” Quoting Didier Deschamps, Noël Le Graët shows a broad smile from the Al Messila hotel in Doha, which will be the base camp of the French team during the 2022 World Cup. Because a long stay in this luxurious five-star hotel located west of the Qatari capital would be synonymous with a great journey for the world champions, who hope to keep their title in the emirate. And the president of the French Football Federation already seems won over by the future cocoon of the Tricolores. “I think it’s ideal, insofar as Didier and the team around him think the site is fantastic. And I think it too. It’s extremely pleasant, modern, and I think people will like it to the players”, assures Le Graët in a video from the FFF.
For Deschamps, present at his side, “everything is united. Obviously, there is comfort, and we can also develop the infrastructures, because the specificity of this World Cup is different. It’s not like in Russia, here we are in Doha, in the city center. We don’t have a relay hotel and we will be here every day, with a lot of time to live together. And we will have green spaces, a little ventilation and a very close field with high quality facilities.” All the conditions therefore seem to be in place for the Blues. But now the results will follow. And, once again, they were rather preserved in the draw, which took place on Friday in Doha. For this last World Cup with 32 teams, before going to 48 in 2026, Kylian Mbappé and his teammates inherited Group C, with, again, Denmark as well as Tunisia, and Peru or the winner of the Australia-UAE duel. United. Nothing insurmountable, a priori.
