This Thursday evening, Didier Deschamps revealed his list of 26 players for the 2026 World Cup which will take place from June 11 to July 19 And in this list, we see a small anomaly. Indeed, this is the first list of the French team since 1986 which does not include any player from Olympique de Marseille. The only Marseille player eligible with the Blues, Benjamin Pavard logically paid for his bad season.
In 2022, Mattéo Guendouzi was called up like Steve Mandanda, Adil Rami and Florian Thauvin crowned world champions in 2018. In 2014, there was Mathieu Valbuena who had been present in 2010 with Steve Mandanda. In 2006, Fabien Barthez and Franck Ribéry competed in the competition like Frank Leboeuf in 2002. Finally, during the 1998 coronation, Laurent Blanc and Christophe Dugarry were called up. The Blues did not play in the World Cup in 1990 and 1994.
