(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 17 – Paul Pogba and Ngolo Kanté, world champions in 2018 and who would also have played in Qatar 2022 if they hadn’t been injured, have accepted the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, and will therefore ascend together to the President himself and to the ‘premiére dame’ Brigitte, on the special flight that will take them to Doha to attend the Argentina-France final. The online edition of the newspaper ‘Le Parisien’ writes it. The presence of a third player on the presidential plane is also confirmed who would have been part of coach Didier Deschamps’ 26 if he hadn’t been injured, i.e. PSG defender Presnel Kimpembe, while the presence of another who had to give up, the attacker Christopher Nkunku, who in any case received the ‘green light’ from Leipzig. Then there will be the glory of French football Alain Giresse and the multi-Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner, as well as the Minister of Sport Amelie Oudéa-Castera. Instead, according to ‘Le Parisien’, Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema, also ‘cut’ (at the last moment) due to injury, Michel Platini and Laurent Blanc refused the invitation from the President. (HANDLE).
