Lemerre calls Real duo
France national team boss Roger Lemerre has ignored advice from FIFA and included Zinedine Zidane and Claude Makelele in his squad for Australia.
France national team boss Roger Lemerre has ignored advice from FIFA and included Zinedine Zidane and Claude Makelele in his squad for Australia.
All of Lemerre's first-team regulars apart from the injured Bixente Lizarazu and Willy Sagnol will fly out to Melbourne for the controversial match on November 11.
Many top European clubs have complained that France had no need to leave them short-staffed for the Australia match, seeing as the game was merely a friendly and FIFA suggested that Lemerre should pick just one player from each club.
Real Madrid, one of 11 clubs to petition against the game, will lose midfield duo Zidane and Makelele for their league visit to Zaragoza the same weekend.