Two months before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Eugénie Le Sommer is still recovering after surgery on her right knee. The top scorer in the history of OL and the French women’s team gives her news.
“For the moment, I’m on schedule”. Eugénie Le Sommer gave her news to Telegram, while the star striker of OL and the French team, who has just celebrated her 35th birthday, is recovering from an operation on her right knee and still hopes to participate in the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024. The best scorer in the history of Fenottes and Les Bleues was seriously injured during the last France-Sweden, on April 9. A big problem for Hervé Renard, who will only be able to select 18 players.
” I do not blame him (to Jonna Andersson, essential defender of the Swedish selection, editor’s note), it was an action where she takes the ball from me. There was no intention to hurt me. It’s football…”explains “ELS” in this interview given to the Breton media (she grew up in Morbihan and was trained at FC Lorient).
Hervé Renard at the time of choice
In addition to having missed the end of the Lyonnaises season (the D1 Arkéma final won against PSG and the Women’s Champions League final against Barça this Saturday), Le Sommer will not play the Blue’s next matches. The French coach has just called up 24 players for two decisive matches against England in the Euro 2025 qualifiers, on May 31 at St James Park and June 4 at Geoffroy-Guichard.
Wendie Renard and her teammates will have three weeks of vacation before meeting again. The French women’s team will first conclude its qualifying campaign for the next Euro against Sweden and Ireland, on July 12 and 16, before competing in the 2024 Olympic women’s football tournament, with group stage matches. against Colombia, Canada and New Zealand, July 25, 28 and 31. With a fully recovered Le Sommer?
