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France pick four newcomers
30/01/2008 14:54 - (SA)
Paris - Four newcomers, among them flyhalf Francois Trinh-Duc, were named on Wednesday by France coach Marc Lievremont in his team to play Scotland in the Six Nations championship on Sunday at Murrayfield 16:00.
Wing Julien Malzieu and props Lionel Faure and Julien
Brugnaut are also set to win their first caps. Flanker Fulgence
Ouedraogo and lock Loic Jacquet, also featuring in a largely
experimental side, have one and two caps each respectively.
Thierry Dusautoir, Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, Damien Traille,
Vincent Clerc and Cedric Heymans are the only players in the
starting line-up who played in the World Cup semi-final defeat
by England last year.
Lievremont took over from Bernard Laporte as coach in the
wake of France's World Cup exit.
Team:
15-Cedric Heymans, 14-Vincent Clerc, 13-Florian Fritz,
12-Damien Traille, 11-Julien Malzieu, 10-Francois Trinh-Duc,
9-Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, 8-Elvis Vermeulen, 7-Fulgence
Ouedraogo, 6-Thierry Dusautoir, 5-Lionel Nallet (capt), 4-Loic
Jacquet, 3-Julien Brugnaut, 2-William Servat, 1-Lionel Faure.
Replacements: 16-Dimitri Szarzewski, 17-Nicolas Mas,
18-Arnaud Mela, 19-Julien Bonnaire, 2O-Morgan Parra, 21-David
Skrela, 22-Aurelien Rougerie.
- Reuters
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