{"id":957682,"date":"2026-05-13T19:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:28:20","slug":"florian-thauvin-on-france-preliminary-list-says-psg-game-unlikely-to-change-deschamps-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957682\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Thauvin on France preliminary list, says PSG game unlikely to change Deschamps&#8217; mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florian Thauvin says he is on France\u2019s preliminary list and does not expect Lens\u2019s meeting with PSG at Bollaert on Wednesday to influence Didier Deschamps before the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/fr\/competition\/fifa-world-cup-12\/matchs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Cup<\/a> squad announcement.<\/p>\n<p>He explained he briefly crossed paths with Deschamps at the UNFP awards on Monday and understood the coach already has a clear plan in mind. According to L&#8217;\u00c9quipe, Thauvin spoke to reporters on Tuesday ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The forward said he is in the pre-selection but has no further information. He added that being on the preliminary list is nothing new, noting it has been the case for almost two years.<\/p>\n<p>At the UNFP ceremony, Thauvin was named in Ligue 1\u2019s Team of the Season. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 won the player of the year award.<\/p>\n<p>Thauvin returned to the national team in October, more than six years after his previous cap, and scored his second international goal in a 3-0 win over Azerbaijan in <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/fr\/competition\/fifa-world-cup-12\/matchs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Cup<\/a> qualifying. He was not involved in France\u2019s tour of the United States in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florian Thauvin says he is on France\u2019s preliminary list and does not expect Lens\u2019s meeting with PSG at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-957682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116568922960484251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}