The veteran has captained the national team for the last 12 years, having been promoted after France’s 2010 fiasco in South Africa. The former tennis prodigy’s calming, level-headed presence has fit perfectly with Didier Deschamps’ task of restoring the national team’s respectability, even if a 2018 drink-driving charge stands out as a blot on his copybook...
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