Nightmare Overshadows ‘Les Bleus’
Besides Mbappe, World Cup debutants, such as William Saliba, Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga and Randal Kolo Muani, will be France's hidden strength to end the bad record of the defending champion team.
France's midfielder Paul Pogba eyes the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group D qualification football match between France and Finland at the Groupama stadium in Decines-Charpieu near Lyon, central eastern France on September 7, 2021.
DOHA, KOMPAS — Bad luck comes in threes, a proverb that rightly describes the French national team in their preparation for the 2022 World Cup. One after another, their main players are injured, even though they have not started defending the trophy that they had won four years ago.
No doubt, their failure in South Korea-Japan 2002 overshadowed their steps in Qatar. At that time, the French team, coached by Roger Lemerre, was in disgrace after becoming the first defending champion to fall in the group phase.