Les Bleus line up friendlies

Tuesday 13 December, 2005

France will arrange three additional friendly matches to fine-tune their World Cup preparations.

Raymond Domenech’s side have just one game scheduled before they kick off their World Cup campaign against Switzerland in Stuttgart on June 13. That comes on March 1, when Slovakia are the visitors at the Stade de France.

The French Football Federation announced on Tuesday that three more fixtures will be arranged and - though they could not yet confirm the opponents - Jamaica, Mexico, Denmark, Paraguay, Finland, Canada, China and Japan are among the nations being considered.

Les Bleus will meet up for their preparation camp on May 21 and will definitely play one of the three matches at the Stade de France on May 27.

The two other games will take place in destinations outside Paris before the squad travels to Germany on June 8.