A few days after Wendie Renard, Eugénie Le Sommer confirmed that she had played her last World Cup match with Les Bleues in Australia.
This is one of the “little news” of the Hervé Renard era. Shelved for more than two years by Corinne Deacon, Eugénie Le Sommer took advantage of the putsch initiated by Wendie Renard, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidatou Diani against the former coach of the Bleues last February, resulting in the layoff of this last and the advent of Hervé Renard. The new tricolor coach then chose to recall the experienced striker, with the main objective of the 2023 World Cup. The competition having ended in the quarter-finals for the Blues (elimination against Australia, 0-0, 7-6 on tabs), Eugénie Le Sommer is aware that a page has been turned.
As her captain Wendie Renard had done a few days earlier, the thirty-four-year-old footballer gave an update on her situation, but also on her future in the France team. If she intends to be present at least until the next Olympic Games which will take place in Paris in the summer of 2024, Eugénie Le Sommer is well aware that participation in a fifth World Cup in 2027 is an illusion. She confided in the subject on Friday, in the columns of The Team. “I saw what Wendie said and I’m going with 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. »
The successor is here
In 2027, the Olympique Lyonnais player will be thirty-eight years old. Probably too much to hope for a place in the tricolor list. This is all the more so as the next generation is already present with first his partner during the 2023 World Cup, Kadidiatou Diani, but also the attackers who withdrew from injury before the World Cup, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Delphine Cascarino. Elements like Vicki Becho should also take over. What perhaps a little consolation Eugénie Le Sommer who has not yet finished with the Blue.
