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Depay calls for full quarantine waiver for non-French internationals after Les Bleus handed preferential treatment

Memphis Depay has called upon the French government to grant a waiver for all international footballers to be exempt from the mandatory period of self-isolation, after it was confirmed that the France national team will be exempt from restrictions.

Didier Deschamps' Les Bleus travel to Kazakhstan later this month as part of their 2022 World Cup qualifiers schedule, with players selected for the fixtures allowed to forgo quarantine upon their return to the country.

But those rules apply only to France's own squad, with other French-based internationals still subject to restrictions, sparking a protest from the Lyon forward after he was called into Frank de Boer's Netherlands squad this week.