The French men’s team has not started in the best possible way its preparation for the European Championship in Hungary and Slovakia. Before the concentration, Nikola Karabatic, Benoît Kounkoud and Yanis Lenne were positive, for which the French coach Guillaume Gille had to call three players to replace them: Wesley Pardin, Julien Bos, and Thibaud Briet.
‘Les Bleus’ began yesterday, December 26, the preparation of the European Championship and the alarms also went off. PCR tests confirmed that up to five players were infected with COVID: Rémi Desbonnet, Hugo Descat, Aymeric Minne, Dylan Nahi and Élohim Prandi.
These same players will be able to return to concentration once they give a negative result through another PCR. At the moment, the team has 13 players for this preparation of the EHF EURO 2022.