{"id":53188,"date":"2024-10-10T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uefa-nations-league-why-i-dropped-mbappe-from-france-squad-deschamps\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:00:46","slug":"uefa-nations-league-why-i-dropped-mbappe-from-france-squad-deschamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uefa-nations-league-why-i-dropped-mbappe-from-france-squad-deschamps\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Nations League: Why I dropped Mbappe from France squad \u2013 Deschamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>France head coach, Didier Deschamps, has opened up on his decision to leave Kylian Mbappe out of the France squad, amid talk of pressure from Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe, who only joined the LaLiga giants this summer, is not in Les Bleus squad for the latest round of UEFA Nations League fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>This has led to criticisms in his homeland, as the 25-year-old played in the 2-0 win over Villarreal, despite apparently nursing a knock.<\/p>\n<p>But Deschamps has insisted that the decision not to select Mbappe was entirely his.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters ahead of the game with Israel on Thursday: \u201cMbappe was not fit against Villarreal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no request. The decision is mine. He played the Villarreal game without being 100 per cent fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UEFA Nations League: Why I dropped Mbappe from France squad \u2013 Deschamps<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France head coach, Didier Deschamps, has opened up on his decision to leave Kylian Mbappe out of the France squad,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12312,5035,1057,15,160,10364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deschamps","category-france","category-mbappe","category-news","category-sport","category-uefa-nations-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}