The French team will face Northern Ireland on June 8 in Lille for its final preparation match before heading to the United States and the 2026 World Cup (June 11-July 19), announced Thursday the president of the French Football Federation, Philippe Diallo.
“We will play against Northern Ireland, who was defeated by Italy during the playoffs on June 8 in Lille after facing Ivory Coast on June 4 in Nantes,” he detailed at the end of an executive committee of the FFF in Paris.
Departure for the United States on June 9
Didier Deschamps’ team will fly to the United States on the afternoon of June 9, where they will stay in Boston and train at Babson College, a private business school located about thirty minutes from the center of the city of Massachusetts.
As the top seed of Group I, the French team will play its three matches of the first round on the East Coast of the United States, against Senegal on June 16 in the suburbs of New York, Iraq on June 22 in Philadelphia, and Norway on June 26 in Boston (all three matches will kick off at 9:00 p.m. Paris time). Didier Deschamps will reveal on May 14 the list of players selected for the World Cup, co-organized by the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
