French Football Team: The defending champion France has suffered a major setback even before starting its FIFA World Cup 2022 (FIFA WC 2022) campaign. The team’s forward player Christopher Nkunku has been ruled out of the World Cup. He has suffered a serious knee injury during the training session.
This star striker of RB Leipzig suffered an injury on Tuesday. The video of his injury is also becoming very viral on social media. It is seen in the video that he collided with fellow player Eduardo Camavinga during training and due to this collision he suffered a serious knee injury.
Christopher Nkunku is out of the World Cup after this challenge which caused him an injury. pic.twitter.com/g4NKUUVXzo
— Frank Khalid (@FrankKhalidUK) October 15, 2022
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Replacement will be announced soon
The French Football Federation has issued a statement saying that Christopher’s X-ray was done in the evening itself, which unfortunately revealed a serious injury. The Federation also said that Christopher’s replacement will be announced only after the medical file sent by us to FIFA is validated.
These three veterans are also out due to injury
This time the French team is struggling with the problem of injury. Due to injury, three big veterans were already unable to make a place in the team. Paul Pogba, N’Golo Kante and Presnel Kimpembe are out of the French squad due to injury.
France is the defending champion
France had won the last FIFA World Cup held in Russia. Earlier in the year 2016, the French team also became the Euro champion. With France’s recent success in big tournaments, it is a contender to win the World Cup this time too. France has star forward players like Karim Benzema, Mbappe and Griezmann. In such a situation, Christopher Kunku’s injury will not cause such a big problem for France.
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