Having undergone thigh surgery on Wednesday, Wendie Renard, the captain of OL Women and Les Bleues, is expected to miss several months of competition and therefore the Final Four of the Nations League which will be played by Hervé Renard’s French team.
Hit in a thigh on December 16, during the last match of the year for OL women in D1 Arkéma (for an 11th victory for Fenottes in as many days), Wendie Renard was operated on on Wednesday. If the Rhone club did not specify the nature of the injury and only announced “ several weeks of competition “, The Team claims that the 33-year-old central defender should be away from the field until the spring.
This is a big blow for the captain of the Lyonnaises and the French team. With her club, the Martinican will not play the last two matches of the Women’s Champions League (but Sonia Bompastor’s team is already qualified). It is above all Hervé Renard who will have to do without his defensive rock (and his main offensive weapon in the set phase) for the Final Four of the Champions League, while he has the opportunity to offer a very first title to the selection of its entire history.
Renard, the 1.87 m tall player, will probably still be resting when Renard, the two-time winner of the African Cup of Nations, is preparing for the semi-final against Germany scheduled for February 23 at Groupama Stadium. Amandine Henry and her teammates will then face world champion Spain or the Netherlands, in the final or for third place, in Seville or on Dutch soil.
🏥 News from Wendie Renard
Our captain will unfortunately be away from the field for a few weeks.
Get well soon ❤️💙
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— OL Féminin (@OLfeminin) December 27, 2023
