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five OM players selected including two for the France team

To all football fans, this information has not escaped you, Karim Benzema is forfeited for the World Cup, which begins this Sunday in Qatar. A blow for the Blues. The only consolation for OM supporters is that five Olympians will take part in the competition.

In the history of the France team, Olympique de Marseille remains the number 1 provider of the Blues, in terms of the number of players and selections.

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Leader of the Marseille squad, the native of Poissy trained at PSG has become the symbol of an enduring, hardworking and strong-character OM. Author of a good start to the season, an essential link in the eleven “Tudorien”, the former Lorient player may not be a first choice in the construction of the midfield of Didier Deschamps but he could well have the opportunity to show its qualities to the whole world.

A surprise from the initial list of Didier Deschamps, perhaps also for the interested party himself.
Among the players most used by Tudor this season, initially erased, he gradually increased in speed. He will be the dean of a very inexperienced French midline, the oldest but not the most capped and probably not the most in demand.

A native of Pikine, trained at the Diambars Institute, undesirable at OM last summer, he has only been established by Tudor once since the start of the season. Thirteen selections already, however, with the Lions of Teranga with whom he won the last African Cup of Nations. In the absence of the irreplaceable Sadio Mané, Bamba Dieng may have a card to play on the front of the Senegalese attack.

Child of Blanc Mesnil, passed by the training center of Le Havre, the midfielder, also winner of the CAN, will participate well in the World Cup, he who remains under the threat of a suspension following his aborted transfer to Watford in the summer of 2020, when he immediately signed for OM. He welcomed with relief the postponement of the hearing of the Court of Arbitration for Sport to February 15 and 16, 2023 and will therefore be able to respond to possible requests from coach Aliou Cissé.

The 3e OM goalkeeper, aged 19, has never played in the first team but he was indeed called up by coach Rigobert Song. “A madness” in the words of the one who will continue to perfect his learning in contact with the best, in Qatar therefore, in the footsteps of the holder André Onana, the last bastion of Inter Milan.

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