Zinedine Zidane and Claude Makelele have announced they will be coming out of international retirement to play for France.
Both players announced their retirement from international football following Euro 2004, but today Zidane admitted: "I have decided to come back for Les Bleus. I don't want to go into too much detail, but I have gone back on my decision ... one year after I said it was categorical.
"(France coach) Raymond Domenech came to see me two or three times in Madrid and he told me what he expected from me."
Both players' comeback match will be a friendly against Ivory Coast on August 17th and they have both made themsleves available for France's crucial World Cup qualifiers in September.
Raymond Domenech was please with the news, saying: " I am very happy that the French team can again count on Zinedine Zidane and Claude Makelele, players of great talent who are playing at the highest level with their clubs.
"Today I am particularly happy to say that, some weeks before the 2006 World Cup qualifying deciders, the players who said they wanted to quit last summer have revealed their desire to return to the France team."
