The leading candidate for the EURO 2024 championship, France has announced the preliminary list of players who will participate in the 2024 German summer season next June.
Coach Didier Deschamps has announced a list of 25 players preparing for the EURO 2024 finals, a match in which the reigning World Cup 2022 runner-up is eager to end a quarter-century long thirst for a European title.
However, fans do not need to worry too much because the French team right now has too many star players such as Kylian Mbappé, Marcus Thuram, Antoine Griezman, Adrien Rabiot, Olivier Giroud, Ousmane Dembele, Kingsley Coman, Benjamin Pavard, and William. Saliba, Aurelien Tchouameni or Eduardo Camavinga.
However, in the preliminary list of 25 players that Coach Deschamps called up this time, an unexpected name appeared: the legendary N’Golo Kante – a running machine, a person with no lungs in the midfield of any team. he contributed. Now 33 years old, Kante left top football to play for Al Ittihad Club in the Saudi Pro League.
In his international career, Kante started playing for the French national team in 2016 and has made 53 appearances, scored 2 goals, and won 1 World Cup championship (2018), 1 UEFA Nations League (2020/21). ). The last time Kante played for Les Bleus was in the match against Denmark in the UEFA Nations League 2020/21 League A group stage on March 6, 2022.
Preliminary list of France squad for EURO 2024
Goalkeeper: Aréola, Maignan, Samba.
Defenders: Koundé, Clauss, Pavard, Konaté, Saliba, Upamecano, Hernandez, Mendy.
Midfielders: Camavinga, Fofana, Rabiot, Zaire-Emery, Tchouaméni, Griezmann, Kanté.
Strikers: Barcola, Dembélé, Coman, Giroud, Kolo Muani, Mbappé, Thuram.
