after 60 matches for some Blues, “We must not forget to protect the physical integrity of the players”, warns Didier Deschamps

However, he did not play all the matches in Blue, but he was used so much by his club Real Madrid that it was he who won the prize for the most active player. Eduardo Camavinga will play his 65th match of the season, if he is lined up on Monday June 19, at the kick-off of the last match of the season, against Greece at the Stade de France, for the fourth qualifying match for Euro 2024 .

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Eduardo Camavinga is not the only one to cross this symbolic bar of 60 games, like the vice-captain Antoine Griezmann, whose counter will show 61 matches on Monday evening. The objective of this match is to finish undefeated at the top of group B before the holidays at the end of a season which again raises the question of infernal calendars. This extended season has been extraordinary and unprecedented for the internationals of the French football team, with a World Cup in the middle.

Some will chain the Euro and the Olympics

“It can be dangerous, but we can’t do anything, even if there are physiotherapists, regrets Antoine Griezmann. The technique for recovering after games is improving year after year. So I think, in the future, we will all be adapted to that.”he breathes.

The trend is clearly towards inflation and for this last rally, Didier Deschamps, after having warned, can only see the wear and tear generated by this insane calendar. “It’s a lot. After “a lot”, the upper stage is “too much”, alert the coach. It is not the players or the coaches who decide, but we must not forget to protect the physical integrity of the players.”

However, this season which is ending is perhaps only a taste of the next with, for some, a sequence between the Euro and the Olympic Games.