The French team, harassed by scandals

The French team, which was eliminated in the round of 16 of the European Championship played in 2021 and has no options to reaffirm the Nations League it won in 2021, has accumulated extra-sports problems two months before the World Cup in Qatar. To make matters worse, Didier Deschamps faces injuries ahead of this week’s matches against Austria and Denmark in the final window of matches before attempting the challenge of repeating the World Cup title achieved in Russia-2018. “It’s not the calmest atmosphere I’ve ever known”, admitted the leader of the ‘bleus’.

The first problem that has affected France in recent weeks is the horrific Paul Pogba blackmail case, which has kept his older brother Mathias and four young men in temporary prison for their alleged involvement in the player’s kidnapping of Juventus, who would have asked for 13 million.

The scandal has splashed Kylian Mbappé after it was revealed to Mathias Pogba that his brother Paul, who is also recovering from a meniscus operation, hired a witch to look bad on his teammate.

In this case, the investigation ordered by the French government into the Football Federation (FFF) was added after So Foot magazine reported, based on anonymous sources, the “toxic environment” in the body and messages of sexual connotation sent of its president Noël Le Graet to three subordinates.

The tense relationship between Mbappé and the FFF with image rights as a reason for the disagreement also clouded the atmosphere. And, on top of that, Deschamps faces a conundrum. He does not know if Pogba will go to the World Cup after his operation and he cannot count on Benzema, Kanté, Lucas Hernández and Kimpembe this week, Lloris, Theo Hernández, Rabiot and two players called relief, Boubacar Kamara and Digne, is missing from the list. , replaced yesterday by Adrien Truffert (Rennes), called up yesterday for the first time at the age of 20