PARIS: France’s Euro 2016 preparations suffered another blow on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) as defender Jeremy Mathieu was ruled out with a calf injury and replaced by uncapped Samuel Umtiti in Didier Deschamps’ 23-man squad, the French Football Federation (FFF) announced.

The 32-year-old Barcelona player arrived at the team’s training session at Clairefontaine outside Paris on May 24 with a muscle injury in his right calf.

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