The coach of the French team, who must face Argentina on Sunday, in the World Cup final in Qatar, spoke, Saturday morning, the measures put in place to adapt to the “viral syndrome” The Blues for a few days.
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On the eve of the final of the Football World Cup, Sunday December 18 at 4 p.m., in Lusail (Qatar), the coach of the French team assured that the Blues “make sure to take a maximum precautions “to protect yourself from the virus that has been circulating for several days, assured Didier Deschamps.
Saturday December 17, at the press conference before Argentine-France, the tricolor coach explained that he was not in possession of the medical “latest news” on this subject which disrupts his team since the start of the week.
“I left fairly early this morning, they [the players] were all sleeping (…), we make sure to manage the best, in tranquility compared to the different situations that are not similar” , explained the boss of the Blues.
“We manage at best”
Friday, Kingsley Coman, Ibrahima Konaté and Raphaël Varane, all three patients, did not participate in the collective training of the French team. They were “spared”, under the terms of the federation. “I will not go into detail, added Deschamps. We make sure (…) to adapt, to do with it, without falling into excess, one way or the other. (…) If [This situation] had not been able to exist it would have been better. But we manage at best. “Théo Hernandez and Aurélien Tchouameni, victims of blows, were also preserved on Friday, leaving the Blues with a workforce of nineteen players out of twenty -quatre.
The “viral syndrome”, thus designated by the supervision of the French team, first touched Dayot Upamecano, then Adrien Rabiot, two holders of the typical team, who did not participate in the Semi-final against Morocco on Wednesday (2-0). Various symptoms have been mentioned in recent days by different players, staff members or sources close to the Blues: fever, stomach aches or even headaches.
Despite the COVVI-19 pandemic, the International Football Federation did not impose screening tests on teams participating in the World Cup, which maintains the vagueness on the origin of the health problems of the Blues, others Nations (Switzerland has been affected) and certain followers (journalists in particular) present in Qatar. Health precautions have been taken at the Hôtel des Bleus, with hydroalcoholic gel, the implementation of barriers and the isolation of contaminated players.
“We are never prepared for this kind of thing, but we try to prepare in the best way, for his part assured Captain Hugo Lloris in front of the press. These are vagaries. But that does not take away In no way the concentration, the excitement that can be at the dawn of a World Cup final. “