Laurent Koselni said that after the injury of Achilles, because of which he missed the 2018 World Cup, won by France, Didier Deschamps simply forgot about his existence.

"After I got injured, I recognized the true face of many people, including Didier Deschamps," Koselni quoted the BBC. - When you're fine - you have lots of friends. When injured - everything changes dramatically. You are simply forgotten. I never would have thought that Deschamps could do that.. For all the time after I got injured in May, he called me only once - congratulated on his birthday in September ".

Koselni played 51 matches for the French team, participated in Euro 2012, 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016. After the 2018 World Cup, Laurent was going to finish his career in the national team, but finally decided not to play for France in October.

Koselni, 33, will fully recover from injury no earlier than December.

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