{"id":71058,"date":"2022-12-17T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/several-france-players-sick-ahead-of-their-world-cup-final-against-argentina"},"modified":"2022-12-17T19:38:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:38:34","slug":"several-france-players-sick-ahead-of-their-world-cup-final-against-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/several-france-players-sick-ahead-of-their-world-cup-final-against-argentina","title":{"rendered":"Several France Players Sick Ahead Of Their World Cup Final Against Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Several France players have caught colds ahead of their World Cup final against Argentina on Sunday 18 December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders Raphae\u0308l Varane and Ibrahima Konate\u0301 are said to be the latest to fall ill on Friday, France 24 reported citing the French Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Varane, Konate\u0301 and striker Kingsley Coman were all sidelined as Les Bleus were preparing to take on Lionel Messi\u2019s Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>The development sparked further fears of a mystery virus in the French camp after two players \u2013 midfielder Adrien Rabiot and defender Dayot Upamecano \u2013 were ruled out of the semi-final win over Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Rabiot and Upamecano both returned to training on Friday. Manager Didier Deschamps refused to panic after Wednesday\u2019s win and said they were being careful to ensure the illness did not spread. France 24\u2019s Selina Sykes reported from Doha:<\/p>\n<p>These are clearly not ideal circumstances, with so little time ahead of that big final against Argentina on Sunday. If there is a bit of a reassuring element to this so-called virus that is spreading within the French camp, it is that it only seems to last a few days.<\/p>\n<p>France 24 sports journalist Romain Houeix said a lot of French journalists are in bad shape adding:<\/p>\n<p>People have been coughing and feeling unwell for a week. We can\u2019t say what it is; we\u2019re working 15-hour days and we don\u2019t have time to take tests.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s my theory that those players have Covid. In sport they tend to talk about sore throats when it\u2019s possibly Covid and they haven\u2019t been tested. Another theory is that it\u2019s \u2018camel flu\u2019, a local virus.<\/p>\n<p>Should Konate\u0301 and Varane be out for the final, however, Deschamps would face a difficult selection decision, as he would be without two of his top three defenders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Several France players have caught colds ahead of their World Cup final against Argentina on Sunday 18 December 2022. Defenders Raphae\u0308l Varane and Ibrahima Konate\u0301 are said to be the latest to fall ill on Friday, France 24 reported citing the French Football Federation. Varane, Konate\u0301 and striker Kingsley Coman were all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":71057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[1493,2189,13033,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-71058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-fifa-2022-world-cup-qatar","12":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Several France Players Sick Ahead Of Their World Cup Final Against Argentina - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Several France players have caught colds ahead of their World Cup final against Argentina on Sunday 18 December 2022. 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