As the France team prepares to launch its World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Corinne Deacon has still not digested her ousting.
Four years after having stalled in the quarter-finals at home, Les Bleues are setting off again to attack the world in the antipodes. Sunday, the France team will start the World Cup organized in Australia and New Zealand against Jamaica and the mission does not look easy for the French, deprived of several major assets, in the first rank of which Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Delphine Cascarino or Amandine Henry.
But the Blue will be able to count on Hervé Renard, their new coach, landed this winter to replace Corinne Deacon. The former central defender was the victim of a coup launched by her captain, Wendy Renard, and followed by several players including Marie-Antoinette Katoto or Kadidiatou Diani. The departure of Noël Le Graët, a few weeks earlier, obviously did not help the native of Croix. And if she was able to console herself with a nice check, the French Football Federation offloading the sum of 870,000 euros to turn the page, the Northerner has still not digested.
“There is still bitterness and resentment in her house over her ousting a few months before the World Cup in circumstances resembling, in her eyes, a putsch fomented by certain players, entrusted his entourage to Parisian. She is not fooled. She has known for a long time that the Lyonnaises wanted her skin after the failure in the 2019 World Cup. Her bad relationship with the influential Jean-Michel Aulas obviously did not help her case. »
And Corinne Deacon has all the less digested the episode that she has not yet found a new project in which to fully invest. If she has carried out various missions for FIFA, she hopes to find a bench. “She is now trying to turn the page. To move on. It was heavy to manage for her, added her relatives, ” the latter specifying: “This membership with the handbrake of a fringe of the group weighed on him. She did not feel sufficiently supported by all her daughters. It was therefore impossible for him to create this momentum, this little extra soul. She still agrees today. »
