Between them, they weigh 200 selections on the international chessboard embellished with two World Cups won twenty years apart.
Marcel Desailly, the former defensive rock, now 54 years old, and Blaise Matuidi, the former tricolor lung 19 years his junior, have hammered home their confidence in the tricolor selection.
Listening to them, these Blues seem to them to be safe from a disappointment comparable to that experienced by the band of Roger Lemerre, defending champion but eliminated in the first round in 2002. The first spoke aside from the presentation of the original World Cup Trophy on October 7 in Paris.
The second, also a World Cup ambassador, was in Miami, where he lives, just a few days ago, when we spoke with him.
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