Les Bleus – Teamsheet: U20 World Cup

Continuing a summer of international football for various French sides, the squad for this summer’s U20 World Cup was announced today. Pierre Mankowski has picked an impressive team, one that will undoubtedly go into the tournament as one of the favourites.

Goalkeepers

Alphonse Aréola (PSG)

Paul Charruau (Valenciennes)

Maxime Dupe (Nantes)

 

Defenders

Lucas Digne (Lille)

Dimitri Foulquier (Stade Rennais)

Christopher Jullien (Auxerre)

Jérôme Roussillon (Sochaux)

Youssouf Sabaly (PSG)

Mahamadou Naby Sarr (Lyon)

Samuel Umtiti (Lyon)

Kurt Zouma (Saint-Etienne)

 

Midfield

Geoffrey Kondogbia (Séville)

Mario Lemina (Lorient)

Axel Ngando (Stade Rennais)

Paul Pogba (Juventus)

Jordan Veretout (Nantes)

 

Forwards

Jean-Christophe Bahebeck (Troyes)

Alexy Bosetti (Nice)

Yaya Sanogo  (Auxerre)

Florian Thauvin (Bastia)

Thibault Vion (Porto)

Some really exciting young players there, ten of them featured in this year’s Le50 and names like Pogba and Kondogbia are performing well outside of France. With the disappointment of France not reaching the Under-21 championships in Israel, this has the potential to be a successful campaign in Turkey.

Les Bleuets kick off Group A against Ghana on 21st June, then it’s the USA on June 24th, finishing the group against Spain on the 27th. Top two go through plus the four best third place sides. All hopes will be on France going far in this competition. We will bring you all the results on FFW.