Author of a good start to the season in the PSG jersey, Ousmane Dembélé was called up by Didier Deschamps with France. The attacking midfielder will inherit a new number during this gathering.
After the September gathering, theFrench team will find the League of Nations
during this month of October with matches against
Israel Thursday and Belgium
Monday. For this gathering, Didier Deschamps summoned four players from PSG.
Bradley Barcola, Randal Kolo Muani, Warren Zaïre-Emery et Ousmane Dembélé. The latter, who wore number 11 with the Blues, will change his number from this gathering.
See also: Désiré Doué withdraws from the France Espoirs team
A legendary number
Indeed, the attacking midfielder of PSG will recover number 7, left vacant since the announcement of the international retirement ofAntoine
Griezmann. Ousmane Dembélé will therefore succeed the attacker of theAtlético de Madridwho wore this number 119 times (out of 137 selections) with the France. Another legendary number 7 of the Blues,
Franck Ribery (42 out of 81) or even…
Didier Deschamps (96 times out of 103 selections),
Florent Malouda (44 out of 80) and Robert
Pires (40 out of 79). Passed by the PSG,
Claude Makélélé wore it nine times (out of 71 selections) just like Luis Fernandez (5 times in 60 selections).
