France-Türkiye: Mbappé in training, minute of silence, Gifted in the dark… The latest news from the Blues

Kylian Mbappé fit to face Turkey on Sunday? “That’s what was planned,” said Zinédine Zidane on Thursday after the 3-1 defeat against Italy in Milan. “He was hit a little bit, rested and he will have the opportunity to play on Sunday. We want it,” added the coach of the France team. The return of the captain of the Blues is indeed becoming clearer, the person concerned, missing from San Siro, having participated in the collective session this Friday, in Bordeaux.

A session which took place on the pitch of the Stade Atlantique, with 30 minutes during which the entire group worked, then only the players who played little or nothing against the Italians. “KM” was therefore one of those elements which were a hit. This is obviously not the case of Dayot Upamecano, who returned to Munich due to a personal problem, nor of Désiré Doué, victim of an elbow on Thursday and who suffers from a loose tooth. “The decision on his participation in the meeting will be taken later,” the French Football Federation (FFF) was told.

Note that this Friday's training session began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the November 13 attacks in Paris and at the Stade de France. “At the initiative of the FFF, the families of Wilfried Schmitter and Anthony Berthome, the two Gironde firefighters who died during this summer’s fires, attended the training and were able to speak with the coach and then Kylian Mbappé,” we explain to “3F”.