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France national team manager Didier Deschamps has unveiled tonight his 26-player squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The 57-year-old has established his final list before stepping down as Les Bleus\u2019 boss once France\u2019s 2026 World Cup run ends.<\/p>\n
Deschamps has gone with an unsurprising blend of world-class talent and experience as he looks to make it a three-peat of World Cup finals, and go one step further than 2022, when they lost to Lionel Messi\u2019s Argentina on penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the most awaited decisions from Deschamps revolved around the identity of France\u2019s third-choice goalkeeper, considering that PSG\u2019s Lucas Chevalier was out of the equation after sustaining a thigh injury. Deschamps eventually went with 21-year-old Robin Risser<\/a>. The Lens goalkeeper has received his maiden Les Bleus call-up, just in time for the World Cup.<\/p>\n At the opposite end of the pitch, where Deschamps is spoilt for choice, Jean-Philippe Mateta has earned a recall. The Crystal Palace centre-forward seems to have benefited the most of Hugo Ekitik\u00e9\u2019s serious Achilles injury. Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s Randal Kolo Muani has been left out, such as Ligue 1\u2019s top scorer, Est\u00e9ban Lepaul.<\/a><\/p>\n Before embarking to America, France will play two friendly international games. They will host Ivory Coast at Nantes on Thursday, June 4; and then Northern Ireland at Lille on Monday, June 8.\u00a0France\u2019s World Cup fixtures in Group I will see them lock horns with S\u00e9n\u00e9gal (June 16), Iraq (June 22) and Norway (June 26).<\/p>\n Didier Deschamps\u2019 France squad for the 2026 World Cup:<\/p>\n Goalkeepers: Mike Maignan (Milan), Robin Risser (Lens), Brice Samba (Rennes)<\/p>\n Defenders: Lucas Digne (Aston Villa), Malo Gusto (Chelsea), L. Hernandez (PSG), T. Hernandez (Al-Hilal), Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 (Liverpool), Jules Kound\u00e9 (Barcelona), Maxence Lacroix (Crystal Palace), William Saliba (Arsenal), Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich)<\/p>\n Midfielders: N\u2019Golo Kant\u00e9 (Fenerbah\u00e7e), Manu Kon\u00e9 (Roma), Adrien Rabiot (Milan), Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni (Real Madrid), Warren Za\u00efre-Emery (PSG)<\/p>\n Forwards: Maghnes Akliouche (Monaco), Bradley Barcola (PSG), Rayan Cherki (Manchester City), Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 (PSG), D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 (PSG), Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace), Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 (Real Madrid), Michael Olise (Bayern Munich), Marcus Thuram (Inter).<\/p>\n GFFN <\/a>| Bastien Cheval<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 France national team manager Didier Deschamps has unveiled tonight his 26-player squad for the 2026 FIFA World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-14819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-france"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}