The cruel defeat conceded in the quarter-finals by Les Bleues against Australia was Eugénie Le Sommer’s last match in the World Cup.
Eugénie Le Sommer did not digest. It’s always time for regrets for the French striker after the elimination of the France team against Australia at the gates of the last four of the World Cup in the Antipodes. “We realize that we have missed something big. Hot, I knew it but the more I think about it, the more I tell myself that there was really a way, ” she confided in the columns of L’Equipe, particularly regretting “Not having played our game enough, we were a little too direct at one point. We could have posed the game a little more and put them in difficulty on our strengths instead of playing on their qualities. They put a lot of intensity but we could have done better. »
The tricolor attacker did not appreciate the face displayed by the troops of Hervé Renard. “At the level of the state of mind, of solidarity, something has really been created between us, the players, or with the staff. Unfortunately, that’s not all.”she pointed out, adding: “You also have to admit that we didn’t have a lot of preparation time, only the April camp before the list. We have to keep working, we are on the right path, with good foundations. »
And this new failure in the World Cup is all the more painful for Eugénie Le Sommer, as at 34, she played her last World Cup. The Lyon player confirmed it. “I saw what Wendie (Renard) said (that she would not play again in a World Cup) and I join her. I think it was my last World Cup game. It’s hard to tell yourself, it’s hard when it happens because it may be a page that turns, she asserted.
But before closing the selection book, the best scorer in the history of Les Bleues has one last challenge: the Paris Olympics. And despite the expected returns from injury of Marie-Antoinette Katoto or Delphine Cascarino or the arrival of Kadidiatou Diani, the Breton woman intends to be there. “I know that Hervé Renard counted on me a lot during this World Cup, I also wanted to give him back. I have no doubt that he can take the team far in the future. I want to be at the Olympics, she asserted. This will go through my club season. I have always fought to gain playing time, for my place. That’s not going to change. There is competition, I have always had it, I will try to give everything so that I can claim these Olympics. »
