With Paul Pogba’s package, Didier Deschamps loses much more than a player for World Cup

Absent from the field since April, the midfielder suffers from a thigh injury when he was just returning from an operation to a meniscus. The coach is deprived of a new framework for the World Cup in Qatar.

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Before stopping a list, Didier Deschamps still works in the old way. The coach of the French team notes the names of the retained players by hand. It also happens to bar them. This is the case of Paul Pogba, injured and forfeited for the World Cup in Qatar (from November 20 to December 18) and that not without difficulty when we know the relationship between the two men.

In a press release transmitted to several media including Le Monde, the lawyer and player’s agent, Rafaela Pimenta, has formalized the bad news. “After medical examinations yesterday (Sunday) and today (Monday), it is extremely painful to inform that Paul Pogba will still need rehabilitation after his operation (a knee in early September). For this reason, Paul does not Can not join (…) the French team in Qatar, “she writes.

At 29, the midfielder lost a medical time trial that few saw him win. Pogba’s latest images on a football field dates back in April. At the time, he still wears the Red Manchester United jersey. When he finds Juventus Turin this summer six years after his departure from Italy, the Frenchman still suffers from his meniscus and refuses the recommended operation to increase (according to him) his chances of being operational in November for the World Cup. At the beginning of September, he is put in the opinion of doctors.

At the same time, the player is taken in spite of himself as the alleged victim of an incredible extra-sporting affair. Since then, his older brother Mathias Pogba has been indicted for extortion in organized gang and participation in an association of criminal criminals, just like four other men. The table is black.

But in recent days, the 2018 world champion had however resumed collective training with Juventus Turin and maintained hope. It was before a new physical glitch on Sunday, with a lesion to a thigh consecutive to a muscle overload (according to Juventus) linked to the increase in its workload to catch up with lost time. Examinations carried out in Turin and then Pittsburgh (United States) confirmed the nature of the injury and Pogba made a reason. This World Cup will be without him.

Without him, nor N’Golo Kanté forfeit since October 18 and an injury to the hamstrings. In less than two weeks, Didier Deschamps lost his midfielder, the one at the heart of the game during the 2018 title in Russia, this association between two men as different as complementary. There is “the gentle” Kanté, the introvert that has become darling of the French by dint of the recovered balloons and disarming smiles. Extravert, solar and capable of passing your hair through all the colors of the rainbow, Pogba has not always avoided the trials in superficiality. Not in the French team, not with Didier Deschamps.

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