The French team will play two preparation matches for the 2026 World Cup against an African team in Nantes on June 4 and a European team on June 8 in a stadium to be determined, said Thursday January 15 the president of the French Football Federation Philippe Diallo. The French team will receive “ in Nantes a team which played in the CAN », explained the leader after the meeting of the FFF’s comex (executive committee), without giving further details. And the adversary of June 8 “ will depend on the results of the European play-offs in March “, he only said. The match could be played north of Paris so that the Blues are not too far from their Clairefontaine training center as they will leave for the United States. in the afternoon of June 9 », specified Diallo. The Blues, seeded in Group I, will face Senegal on the east coast of the United States on June 16 in the suburbs of New York, a play-off to be determined between Iraq, Bolivia or Suriname on June 22 in Philadelphia, and Norway on the 26 in Boston. Didier Deschamps will reveal the list of players selected for the World Cup in mid-May.
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