The central defender of Paris SG Presnel Kimpembe, “insufficiently recovered“Achilles tendon injury, is forfeited for the World Cup and is replaced by novice Axel Disasi of AS Monaco, the French Football Federation announced on Monday.
The 2018 world champion played fifteen minutes with his club again on Sunday, a first since the end of October, and he “does not consider himself sufficiently recovered to be able to hold his place in the defense of the Blues in Qatar“, said the FFF in a press release, on the first day of the French rally in Clairefontaine.