PSG midfielder had not played in the France team since February 22, 2022. In November 2021, the International had been the victim of an assault.
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After difficult days following his assault, in November 2021, and a prolonged sidelines with his PSG club, Kheira Hamraoui could live a more pleasing 2023. At 33, the midfielder with 39 selections is back with the Bleues, just under a year after her last selection, on February 21, 2022, during the France tournament against the Netherlands.
The selector Corinne Diacre again called on her to compete in the 2023 edition of the France tournament, where the Tricolores will face the Danes (February 15), the Uruguayan (February 18) and the Norwegians (February 21). “I want to see what athletic impact it can bring us,” said Diacre.
Hamraoui has gradually found playing time at PSG in recent months. Attracted on November 4, 2021 – by masked men when she was accompanied by car by her teammate Aminata Diallo, after a “cohesion” dinner with the female section of PSG -, she had gone to an unjust position of goat emissary.
She had been put on the touch on April 23, 2022, after her altercation in training with Sandy Baltimore, on the eve of a semi-final go to the Champions League, against Lyon. This pass of weapons had also involved the Parisians Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidatou Diani (players from the Bleues), who came to do battle with Kheira Hamraoui. She will also find Baltimore and Diani in the French team during this France tournament, Katoto being absent for injury.
“It’s an element like any other among the team, we don’t want to make a Hamroui case. She wants to move forward, we too. We want to turn to the future and focus on the field “Said the selector.
While the Parisian club wanted to force her to leave the capital, Kheira Hamraoui had refused and obtained her reinstatement in the professional group, September 20, 2022. Since then, she participated in 10 Division 1. She was also Aligned four times in the Champions League.
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Kheira Hamraoui returns to the workforce of the Blue and applies to a place for the World Cup, from July 20 to August 20 in Australia and New Zealand. The former Lyonnaise has no longer played major official competitions with the French team since the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, and the 2015 World Cup, in Canada.
Questioned after a difficult PSG victory against Dijon, his coach, Gérard Précheur, had eluded the question on a possible return to the Blue of her player: “It is to her [Corinne deacre] to assess her potential and The contribution that Kheira can represent for this selection. It is she who can do it, not me. “
He had even shown himself Critique on its service in the French Cup, January 28 in Dijon:” To avoid doing the language From wood, I think Kheira Hamraoui must bring much more to the team. Today, she is not physically ready. The performance of Dijon [victory 2-0] is not satisfactory. “Before tempering her Judgment: “It is true that she has a calf injury, this perhaps explains that. But it is not the only one in the executives not to have been present, especially in the first period.”
It was not a brake for his return to the French team. “She had a little less playing time on this start to the season with PSG, but Paris will have important deadlines quickly. The club will need all its workforce, said Corinne Diacre. This is the opportunity for Kheira to show us her desire. “
