Philippe Diallo spoke at length to Le Figaro and did not avoid any subject. The president of the FFF explained in particular the reasons which pushed the France A team not to take the train - despite promises - to join Lyon and Marseille in order to play two friendly matches against Germany ( this Saturday March 23 at 9 p.m.) and against Chile (next March 26).
“Today, 85% of our national teams’ travel is by train. The movement initiated is underway in a major way. On the A, I wanted the French team to travel in this way for journeys of less than three hours. Two criteria were important: player recovery and security. We have done the studies, no attack has been made against the SNCF which has worked well, and I noticed that everything was not in place for this international sequence. So I decided not to do it. What seems surprising for the common man, to say one or two hours ready is the same thing, for very high level players it is not the same.