Various preparation tournaments for the 2023 World Cup have already been announced, in Spain or Greece in particular, and now it is the program of the Blues who is known.
The Tokyo Olympic vice-champions will thus play five preparation matches between the end of July and mid-August, before two other matches still to be determined a few days before the start of the competition.
Rudy Gobert and his band will enter the track on July 27 against Tunisia, in Pau. On August 2, it will be against Montenegro, in Montpellier. Then, two matches in Orléans, on August 7 and 9, against Venezuela and Lithuania. Finally, the Blues will go to Lithuania for a rematch on August 11.
Tickets to attend the four matches in France are also on sale from this Thursday.
The French team will be fixed on the composition of its group and its opponents during the draw made in Manila in a month, on April 29. As a reminder, the World Cup will be played in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines between August 25 and September 10.
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