Five months from the World Cup, three key players from the French team, including Captain Wendie Renard, announced, on Friday, their background of the selection, denouncing the management of the group. They were imitated this Saturday, by Morroni pearl.
by Denis Ménétrier
The announcement had the effect of a bomb, a kind of “Knysna” of French women’s football. No training strike, as their counterparts of the French male team did on June 20, 2010 in the middle of the World Cup in South Africa, but the same feeling that history can only end.
A few months ago from the 2023 World Cup-organized from July 20 to August 20, in Australia and New Zealand-, three key players from the Bleues, Captain Wendie Renard, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani, Knowing, Friday, February 24, their background of the French team. Imitated, the next day, by Morroni pearl. “I bring my support to Wendie, Marie, Kady and all those who will speak because if I one day postpone the jersey of the French team I hope it will be in better conditions”, Written on Instagram the back of Olympique Lyonnais .
All spoke on social networks to justify this decision and denounce a “current system far from the requirements required by the highest level”, “management” and “transmitted values” currently within the collective. No name is cited, but one of the targets of their grievances is guess: Corinne Diacre, selector of the Habs for more than five years.
The last rally of the Bleues, however marked by the victory in the France tournament, despite disappointing performances against Denmark (1-0), Uruguay (5-1) and Norway (0-0), convinced some players of the lack of ambition and requirement of the latter to training and during the matches.
“We have to find our game identity,” launched the midfielder Grace Geyoro, after the draw against the Scandinavians, in Angers on February 21. A way to disavow the recent choices of the selector in the game. 2>
Six years of tensions
There is what’s going on on the field, but also what takes place outside. Management made of rigor and authority of Corinne deacon, so often criticized since her arrival at the head of the Blue in 2017, continues to tense. Before the euro in the summer of 2022, certain relationships had nevertheless appeased. The contrast with the many shines of a selector indifferent to the status of her players was then striking.
Wendie Renard can testify. During her taking office, the former international (121 selections between 1993 and 2005) had withdrawn her the captain’s armband, which she had been wearing since 2013. categorical, Corinne Diacre had promised that “she would be [T] stationed “, the defender of Olympique Lyonnais would no longer wear it. A decision to which she finally returned, in September 2021, a few months from the continental deadline. “Sometimes, I sometimes say nonsense, will concede the owner of the Habs. I do not change but I evolve. I am always stubborn despite everything.”
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