Jules Koundé, Mike Maignan, Aurélien Tchouaméni or Ibrahima Konaté… This time, there were no, as in October, debates or discussions behind the scenes at Clairefontaine to cast the future captain. This Thursday evening against Israel, N’Golo Kanté, as announced on our site on Tuesday evening, will wear the armband.
In the absence of Kylian Mbappé for a second consecutive rally and Tchouaméni (injured), Didier Deschamps made the Al-Ittihad midfielder, unavailable due to small physical glitches during the previous rally, the leader of the Blues. He had already named him captain on September 9 against Belgium, when Mbappé started the match on the bench.