Zinédine Zidane has decided. At the time of announcing his list, the new coach of the France team indicated that he was going to rely on “four captains. » The only certainty was that Kylian Mbappé was one of them.
The Bondynois will continue to wear the armband, as he did during the Deschamps era, since the international retirement of Hugo Lloris at the end of the 2022 World Cup. Faithful to what he did at Real Madrid, Zinédine Zidane has decided to make three other players responsible. Among them, we find Ousmane Dembélé.
According to L’Equipe, Dembélé is one of the captains of the Blues, in the same way as Adrien Rabiot and Jules Koundé. This is a first for the first two cities, but not for Koundé, who was already one of Didier Deschamps’ vice-captains.
Zidane counts on his executives, Dembélé is one of them
These are quite simply the three most capped players in the squad, behind Mbappé (106 caps). Dembélé has 67 appearances in the rooster jersey, and is ahead of Rabiot (66) and Koundé (56).
Among the executives who could have claimed this stripe, we can think of Mike Maignan (48 selections) or Dayot Upamecano (46 selections), as well as Aurélien Tchouaméni (50 selections), not selected for this gathering because he started his season late with Real Madrid.
With this choice of Zidane, Dembélé, Rabiot and Koundé see their status reinforced within the group. The first two look like indisputable starters. Koundé is more contested, but he still seems to start with a good lead over Pierre Kalulu to start on the right of the defense.
