The coach of the France team Didier Deschamps, absent from the gathering of the Blues for a family mourning since Tuesday, will return to the selection on Saturday, announced his deputy Guy Stéphan on Friday after France-Denmark (1-2).
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Didier will be back tomorrow (Saturday, editor's note)
", declared Guy Stéphan, in charge of leading the Blues on Friday at the Stade de France.
Deschamps returned to his family in the Basque Country on Tuesday after learning of his father's death.
The preparation of the Blues for the meeting then took place without him at Clairefontaine.
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For him it was an extremely painful day, it was the day of the funeral
," said Guy Stéphan, claiming to have been "
quickly
" in contact with Deschamps after the meeting.
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The Blues fly to Split on Sunday, where they face Croatia in the League of Nations on Monday.
They then meet in Austria on June 10, then at the Stade de France against Croatia on June 13.
