Franck Le Gall, the man who treats the sores of the Blues

The Upper Serpent

by Pierre Lemaitre,

by Brigitte Giraud (Flammarion, Prix Goncourt 2022) and

, the biography of Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes (testimony of the former French international on his fight against cancer)… Franck Le Gall has slipped a few books into his suitcase for Qatar, host country of the World Cup (November 20-December 18) which begins this Sunday in Doha with a spirited Qatar-Ecuador (5 p.m., TF1).

But it is impossible for him to be certain of having read them all in the coming weeks.

Cup,” concedes the chief doctor of the French team, world champion.

At 58, one of the key men of Didier Deschamps' staff - with whom he has collaborated since 2012 - is preparing to play his third World Cup after that in Brazil in 2014 and that in Russia in 2018 during the coronation of the French .

And he already knows that it will be without any respite.

Like always.

But this…

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