France's World Cup squad members suspended for next game

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Fri, Jul 23 08:31 PM

Enlarge PhotoFrance's national soccer team coach Raymond Domenech conducts a training session in Knysna, near Cape... The 23 members of France's World Cup squad have been suspended for the country's next game, the French Football Federation (FFF) said on Friday.

The decision was taken during a meeting of the FFF's Federal council on the recommendation of new coach Laurent Blanc following the country's World Cup debacle, a statement said.

France's next international is a friendly against Norway in Oslo on Aug. 11.

The country's World Cup campaign in South Africa was a total failure as France were ousted in the first round without a win.

Their exit followed a players' boycott of a training session in support of striker Nicolas Anelka, who was sent home for insulting coach Raymond Domenech.

(Reporting by Jean-Paul Couret, editing by Ken Ferris;

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