And the whole squad will be relieved to see Bale following his fitness scare in the Champions League final on Saturday, although in the end it was nothing more than a severe bout of cramp.
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“We’re trying to get a squad that’s going to be well balanced”, he said.
“No matter who we play we feel confident in our abilities we can win and we’ll go out there and try and do that”. We will assess. It is hard to say he will be ready at this time. “Whatever happens at Arsenal or anywhere else, I can only speak about when he comes with us”.
“We are going to need him through this tournament definitely, it is on the world stage and everyone will be watching”.
The footage will no doubt be revisited time and time again, either as fans of the future look back at the golden generation’s first appearance at a major tournament or as a lament of what could have been.
But he will be included if has shown he will be fit for the third game against Russian Federation in Toulouse on June 20.
“If we needed to really push the players we could, but we don’t need to do that”, Coleman told BBC Wales Sport.
Wales will play Sweden away in their last pre-tournament friendly on June 5 before kicking off their Euro 2016 campaign against Slovakia in Bordeaux six days later.
“We took the trophy to temples, to the grand palace – I don’t know if we felt like pop stars but everyone knows about Leicester City now”.
For us, he gives us something that we haven’t got.
It was feared that the injury was worse than first thought, and Bristol City youngster Wes Burns will travel to France next week as cover for Robson-Kanu.
Joe Ledley was named in the Wales squad despite the Crystal Palace midfielder suffering a hairline fracture of the left leg on May 7. “He looked fantastic in the game”.
“With this type of injury, he’s ahead of the curve”.
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“Whoever your best players are you have to get up to their level and that is what the best teams do”.
