Euro 2016: France to play Cameroon, Scotland

Euro 2016 hosts, France will play home friendlies against Cameroon and Scotland in the build-up to this year’s tournament, the French Football Federation said on Monday.

The French team will face Cameroon on May 30 in Nantes and Scotland on June 4 in Metz. They also have scheduled friendlies in March against the Netherlands and Russia.

France take on Romania in the opening European Championship match on June 10 in Paris. Switzerland and Albania are the other teams in Group A.

Meanwhile, French international and Bayern Munich winger, Franck Ribery, has completed his first full team training since a right thigh muscle injury put him out for two months.

Ribery made two appearances after coming back from a nine-month-long right ankle injury, only to be sidelined again after getting hurt in December in a Champions League match at Dinamo Zagreb.

The Frenchman returned on Monday, two days before a German Cup quarterfinal at second-division Bochum.

Fellow winger, Arjen Robben says: “We need him. We have difficult but nice months ahead of us.”

Robben adds, “We have to be careful because the match in Bochum won’t be easy. Bochum could be playing in the top division.”

Bayern is coming off a 0-0 draw at Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.

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