The course of Hervé Renard’s Bleues during the 2023 World Cup, concluded by elimination in the quarter-finals, remained across the throat of some observers.
Four years after the quarter-final reached during the World Cup organized in France, the Blue hoped to do better during the 2023 World Cup organized from July 20 to August 20 on the side of Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately for them, the French players did no better and once again failed at the quarter-final stage, eliminated on penalties by Australia (0-0, 7-6 on pens). A small failure for Hervé Renard and his band, especially since the French Football Federation had set the goal for the tricolor coach to reach at least the last four. But the coach is not solely responsible for this disappointing result. The episode of the coup last February played out on several levels. And some have not forgotten it.
This is the case of Yoann Riou who got carried away on the subject on Friday. On the chain The Team, the journalist evoked in the broad sense what annoyed him in this story. ” I am absolutely not naive. We know what is happening at the moment in football, the authorities, the Federation, the Minister of Sports. It’s that right now, we want tinsel and big names. We are in the communication, of the communication, of the communication (…) And Yoann Riou to discuss more specifically the case of the French women’s football team and the putsch triggered last February by Wendie Renard, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani against Corinne Deacon, which led to the sidelining of the coach by the FFF before Hervé Renard was appointed in his place.
“Fiasco” at the 2023 World Cup
” We saw the absolute fiasco of women since, supposedly it had to be extraordinary, we had to win this World Cup. We made a putsch or rather a ‘putschette’, a little putsch which turned out to be a disaster with an elimination in the quarter-finals where we did not see football for a month with the France team. However, the journalist wanted to clear Hervé Renard, preferring to emphasize the strategy of the FFF and the Ministry of Sports. ” The Minister of Sports, the French Federation, we just want names. We want to entice people. Except that at some point, there is a principle of reality. We take Hervé Renard, two or three months before (the World Cup), but he didn’t have time to build. »
