Morocco’s Harit hurts knee putting World Cup in doubt
Morocco striker Amine Harit was carried off on a stretcher against Monaco on Sunday, in the last club match before joining his country’s World Cup squad.
Harit injured a knee in the 58th minute and lay on the pitch for several minutes. He was examined by Marseille medical staff and then carried off holding his head with both hands.
“From what we know, it’s a very big injury,” said Marseille
coach, Igor Tudor, on Prime Video, without offering a detailed prognosis.
Harit, a former France youth international, has played 16 times for Morocco who kick off their World Cup against Croatia on
November 23 in Group F.
Thuram in France squad
Marcus Thuram, the son of 1998 World Cup winner Lilian, has been added to Didier Deschamps’ France squad for the Qatar tournament, a French Football Federation source confirmed.
The 25-year-old Borussia Monchengladbach striker, who is
the 26th and final pick for the defending champions, has played four internationals, winning his most recent cap at last year’s Euro 2020 tournament.
Thuram has scored 10 goals in the Bundesliga this season and is second in the goalscoring charts in Germany. Lilian Thuram was one of the star players in a France team captained by Deschamps that won the 1998 World Cup.
Deschamps last week selected 25 of a possible 26 players for the tournament in Qatar, where France will attempt to become the first team to defend their World Cup title since Brazil
in 1962.