France holds its base camp.
According to our information, the FFF has chosen the Al Messila Resort hotel.
The latest financial discussions, conducted this Friday ahead of the draw for the World Cup, made it possible to obtain a bipartisan agreement.
Noël Le Graët, the president of the authority, had the assumed will to place the internationals in the best conditions while respecting the budgetary framework fixed by the authority.
Deal.
Located 6 kilometers from the center of Doha, the hotel is twinned with the Jassim-bin-Hamad stadium, where the Al-Sadd club plays, trained by Xavi before the Spaniard left for Barcelona in November 2021. Blues should therefore, logically, train in this enclosure.
Arrival on site between 16 and 19 November
On Thursday March 31, the tricolor staff had, as announced on our site, also visited the Al Samriya Autograph Collections hotel located outside Doha, in the Shahaniya district, in the middle of the Al Samriya farm.
Composed of 62 rooms and 26 villas, a spa and a restaurant, it had the particularity of not yet being fully completed.
This point certainly weighed against him.
The world champions will take possession of their base camp five days before the date of their first match (an arrival scheduled for Doha between November 16 and 19).
On this strategic file, France has benefited from the meticulous work undertaken since October 2019 by Philippe Brocherieux, the administrative manager in charge of logistics management during major competitions.
To this end, he had made several trips to the small emirate with Mohamed Sanhadji, the liaison and security officer of the Blues, in particular in December 2021, in the midst of the Arab Cup.
The Al Messila hotel, located 23 km from Hamad International Airport, is an establishment with some 130 rooms located in a vast garden of 13,000 square meters.
The hotel part will be entirely privatized for the French delegation until its elimination or, at best, after the final.
For information, on the Booking.com reservation site, rooms are currently offered at the rate of 197 euros per night which, in Qatar, seems very reasonable.