{"id":17898,"date":"2026-11-14T22:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/mbappe-available-for-frances-nations-league-clash-against-turkey-zidane\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T22:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T22:15:46","slug":"mbappe-available-for-frances-nations-league-clash-against-turkey-zidane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/mbappe-available-for-frances-nations-league-clash-against-turkey-zidane\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe available for France\u2019s Nations League clash against Turkey \u2014 Zidane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"55.822416302766\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Kylian Mbappe is available to play in France\u2019s final Nations League group fixture against Turkey, coach Zinedine Zidane said on Saturday, as Les Bleus seek a spot in the quarter-finals.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Real Madrid forward Mbappe missed Thursday\u2019s\u00a0defeat to Group A1 leaders Italy with a hamstring problem, but Zidane confirmed: \u201cHe will be with us tomorrow (Sunday).\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mbappe, who has netted 17 goals in all competitions for his club this season, was back in the France squad for this international break after missing his country\u2019s previous three matches through injury.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Zidane said Mbappe\u2019s return \u201cchanges everything\u201d, adding: \u201cI\u2019d rather have him with us than not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The 54-year-old, a World Cup winner with France in 1998 and European champion two years later, denied any tensions with Mbappe and said his relationship with his star striker was going \u201cperfectly\u201d. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI can\u2019t stop people saying what they\u2019re saying, but it\u2019s nonsense and quite irritating,\u201d said Zidane.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">France are second in Group A1, level on 10 points with Italy, and need just a draw against Turkey in Bordeaux to secure qualification for the Nations League quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#0b7f636e6e6f627f64794b7b7e656863656c25686466\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"c8bca0adadaca1bca7ba88b8bda6aba0a6afe6aba7a5\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe is available to play in France\u2019s final Nations League group fixture against Turkey, coach Zinedine Zidane said on Saturday, as Les Bleus seek a spot in the quarter-finals.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}