Axel Disasi has been called up to the French football team for the 2022 World Cup (November 20-December 18) to replace Presnel Kimpembe, forfeited through injury. It’s a big blow in defense for the Blues who are also joined by striker Marcus Thuram, son of former defender Lilian Thuram.
” I’m gonna take another tube of aspirin, you wanna kill me, but you ain’t gonna make it “, joked Didier Deschamps, during the presentation of the 25 players selected for the 2022 Football World Cup (November 20-December 18). The coach of the France team reacted to numerous questions from the media on the past, present and future difficulties of the Blues, for this tournament.
Nevertheless, the tricolor coach has enough to have new headaches: on November 14, he saw his defender Presnel Kimpembe throw in the towel before the competition because of an Achilles tendon, the day after the deadline for communicating the final list of elements selected for the final phase.
Axel Disasi, novice with the Blues
” The Paris-SG defender does not consider himself sufficiently recovered to be able to hold his place in the defense of the Blues in Qatarunderlines a press release. This decision was taken this Monday morning, in Clairefontaine, after an exchange between the player and the doctor of the France team, Dr Franck Le Gall, then between the player and Didier Deschamps “.
Kimpembe formed the French central hinge with Raphaël Varane, also recovering but still in the group. He was also a manager, like midfielders Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kanté, also out of this competition.
To replace numerically the vice-captain of PSG, Axel Disasi was summoned for the first time to the national team A. The resident of AS Monaco, aged 24, has mainly evolved in youth selections.
Marcus Thuram, the 26th called
A little earlier, the French Football Federation also announced that Marcus Thuram will join a workforce that gathers at Clairefontaine. Didier Deschamps had indeed the possibility of retaining a 26th and last element. That’s what he did with Borussia Mönchengladbach striker, son of his former 1998 World Cup teammate Lilian Thuram.