{"id":970,"date":"2026-03-19T17:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=970"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:29:31","slug":"seven-premier-league-players-named-in-france-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Seven Premier League players named in France squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Didier Deschamps has named seven Premier League-based players in his France squad for March\u2019s international break.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France face Brazil and Colombia in friendly fixtures later this month as preparations continue for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Les Bleus will travel to the tournament among the favourites, having reached each of the last two World Cup finals. Included in Deschamps\u2019 squad for the final international break before the World Cup are a raft of Premier League faces.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool duo Ibrahima Konate and Hugo Ekitike are both involved, while Arsenal\u2019s William Saliba, Chelsea right-back Malo Gusto and Aston Villa\u2019s Lucas Digne join Konate among the defensive group.<\/p>\n<p>Further forward, Manchester City midfielder Rayan Cherki and Spurs striker Randal Kolo Muani are both involved. There\u2019s no place for Crystal Palace forward Jean-Philippe Mateta in the group.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>France squad for March friendlies with Brazil and Colombia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers<\/strong>: Lucas Chevalier, Mike Maignan, Brice Samba.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Malo Gusto, Lucas Hernandez, Theo Hernandez, Ibrahima Konate, William Saliba, Lucas Digne, Dayot Upamecano, Pierre Kalulu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Adrien Rabiot, Eduardo Camavinga, N&#8217;Golo Kante, Aurelien Tchouameni, Manu Kone, Warren Zaire-Emery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Kylian Mbappe, Michael Olise, Ousmane Dembele, Desire Doue, Randal Kolo Muani, Ryan Cherki, Hugo Ekitike, Marcus Thuram, Maghnes Akliouche.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Opta supercomputer makes Arsenal Champions League favourites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Champions League Team of the Week \u2013 Raphinha, Rice, Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didier Deschamps has named seven Premier League-based players in his France squad for March\u2019s international<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}