France's Euro 2016 preparations suffered another blow on Saturday as defender Jeremy Mathieu was ruled out with a calf injury and replaced by uncapped Samuel Umtiti in Didier Deschamps' 23-man squad, the French Football Federation (FFF) announced. He is replaced by Samuel Umtiti," an FFF statement said. France, winners in 1984 and 2000, open their Euro campaign against Romania on June 10. "The evolution of his injury and the results of the last tests carried out have led Didier Deschamps not to keep him in the list of 23 for Euro 2016. The 32-year-old Barcelona player arrived at the team's training session at Clairefontaine outside Paris on May 24 with a muscle injury in his right calf.

Source: Standard Digital May 28, 2016 18:11 UTC