‘If we could have avoided it…’ – Didier Deschamps opens up on France’s game against Ukraine on November 13

France national team manager Didier Deschamps said on Thursday that he would have preferred if France’s 2026 World Cup qualifier against Ukraine would have been scheduled on a different day that next Thursday. Ten years ago, on Friday, November 13 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks hit Paris. 137 people were killed.

The attacks started at Saint-Denis’ Stade de France, where Didier Deschamps’ France team were facing Germany for a friendly game. Ten years later, on November…