Axel May, edited by Romain Rouillard 8:45 p.m., December 19, 2022
Beaten on Sunday in the final of the 2022 World Cup by Argentina (3-3 / 4-2 on pens), the players of the France team will only have a few days to recharge their batteries, because the European championships resume as soon as the beginning of next week.
Nevertheless, all the Blues will not be housed in the same boat.
The holidays will be short for the Blues after their beautiful 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Beaten in the final on Sunday by Lionel Messi's Argentina (3-3 / 4-2 on pens), the players of the France team are back in France this Monday evening and will share a moment of communion with the supporters on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
But after a month of competition and despite the resulting fatigue, Didier Deschamps' men will have to quickly regroup.
Resumption of Ligue 1 on December 28
Most national championships resume, in fact, from the beginning of next week.
The English Premier League, where goalkeeper Hugo Lloris plays, will open the ball on December 27.
Nevertheless, depending on the clubs and their status, some players could benefit from additional leave.
Kylian Mbappé, author of a hat-trick in this anthology final, is one of those internationals who can impose a recovery date on their employer.
Especially since the tricolor striker plays for Paris Saint-Germain, a club owned by Qatar, the host country of the World Cup which has just ended.
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The next day, all the players playing in the Spanish championship will in turn find their way back to competition.
This concerns in particular Jules Koundé (FC Barcelona), Aurélien Tchouaméni (Real Madrid) but also a certain Karim Benzema.
The winner of the Ballon d'Or 2022, package for the World Cup due to injury, announced on Monday in a tweet the end of his international career.
