World Cup 2022: Marcus Thuram is final piece in France World Cup jigsaw
France's Marcus Thuram arrives for a get-together, two days before the French national team leave for the upcoming Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament, at the team's training ground in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, outside Paris on November 14, 2022. The week-long countdown to the World Cup in Qatar begins as the world's leading footballers focused their attention on one of the most controversial tournaments in history. The first World Cup to be held in the Arab world will kick off on November 20, 2022, when the host nation face Ecuador. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
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The 25-year-old Borussia Moenchengladbach 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.
France open the defence against Australia in Group D on November 22.
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