PARIS (FRANCE) (ITALPRESS) – “Kylian is in dazzling form.” Didier Deschamps has no doubts and reassured France about the physical and mental condition of the Real Madrid star. The coach of the World Cup runners-up, on the eve of the friendly in Nantes against the Ivory Coast, an African national team that is in Group E with Germany, Curaçao, and Ecuador.

“He’s doing well physically and mentally. He’s our captain, we talk a lot, and he talks to his teammates,” explains the former Juventus player and coach. “We need to leave the clubs behind us; now there’s only the national team, and he’s training hard here. He has great experience and is playing his third World Cup. I see him doing very well.”

France will debut on June 16 against Senegal, in the first matchday of Group I, then on the 22nd the match against Iraq, and finally, on the 26th the final match of the group against Norway. “I’m not thinking about the third match obviously, I’m thinking about the first one against Senegal and then I’ll think about the second one – says Deschamps -. I already have the lineup for the debut in mind, but now the starters are no longer 11, but 13, 14 if not more. In tomorrow’s friendly I will try to have as many players as possible”.

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Source: medNews