{"id":1776,"date":"2025-11-07T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:09:14","slug":"france-boss-deschamps-would-prefer-to-avoid-playing-on-paris-attacks-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/france-boss-deschamps-would-prefer-to-avoid-playing-on-paris-attacks-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"France boss Deschamps would prefer to &#8216;avoid playing&#8217; on Paris attacks anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-9.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-9-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-9-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Didier Deschamps said on Thursday that he would have preferred to &#8220;avoid playing&#8221; France&#8217;s 2026 World Cup qualifying match against Ukraine on November 13, the date which will mark the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Paris attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 13, 2015, a series of attacks in Paris and around the Stade de France during a friendly match between Les Bleus and Germany left a total of 130 people dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a sensitive issue. Deep down, I think it would have been better if we could have avoided playing on November 13,&#8221; the France coach told reporters at a press conference for his squad announcement ahead of the upcoming qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Was that possible? I don&#8217;t have the answers, and it&#8217;s not up to me.&#8221; Deschamps said the meeting with Ukraine will be &#8220;a special day marked with commemorations&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Out of respect for the families who have suffered and lost loved ones, the duty of remembrance must always be respected. And there is a football match on that date which is very important for us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France top Group D with 10 points from four outings, three points ahead of Ukraine who they host on November 13 before travelling to Azerbaijan three days later.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/seleccion-francia\/seleccion-ucrania\/2024758830\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didier Deschamps said on Thursday that he would have pr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}