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Paris (AFP) – Midfielder Boubacar Kamara has been called up to replace Adrien Rabiot, “insufficiently recovered” from a calf injury, for the next matches of the France team in the League of Nations, the French Football Federation announced on Friday. .
Coach Didier Deschamps took this decision “as a precaution” while “the evolution of Rabiot’s left calf muscle injury” does not allow the Juventus Turin player to play this weekend in club, it is written in a press release.
The former Parisian will still go to Clairefontaine on Monday, where the Blues are expected for the start of the rally, in order to obtain the opinion of Franck Le Gall, the doctor for the France team, said the management.
Rabiot is replaced numerically by Boubacar Kamara, called up for the first time in June in the tricolor jersey. The 22-year-old, who spent this summer from OM to Aston Villa, had started, against Croatia and Austria, in two of the four games played by France.
The Blues receive Austria on Thursday September 22 at the Stade de France before challenging Denmark on Sunday 25 in Copenhagen at the end of the League of Nations.
Goalkeepers (3): Alphonse Areola (West Ham), Hugo Lloris (Tottenham/ENG), Mike Maignan (AC Milan/ITA).
Defenders (9): Benoît Badiashile (Monaco), Jonathan Clauss (Marseille), Theo Hernandez (AC Milan/ITA), Jules Koundé (FC Barcelona/ESP), Ferland Mendy (Real Madrid/ESP), Benjamin Pavard (Bayern Munich/ Arsenal (Arsenal), Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich/GER), Raphael Varane (Manchester United/ENG).
Midfielders: Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid), Youssouf Fofana (Monaco), Matteo Guendouzi (Marseille), Boubacar Kamara (Aston Villa), Aurelien Tchouaméni (Real Madrid/ESP).
Strikers (6): Ousmane Dembele (FC Barcelona), Olivier Giroud (AC Milan/ITA), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Randal Kolomuani (Frankfurt/GER), Kylian Mbappe (Paris SG) and Christopher Nkunku (Leipzig/GER).