“I look in front and you have to move forward and prepare this group well for the arrival deadlines”. A real earthquake struck the French female team this week with the sidelining of two legends, Captain Wendie Renard, 164 selections at 34, and Eugénie Le Sommer, the best scorer in the history of the Blue (94 goals in 200 capes). The coach Laurent Bonadei clearly explained it: he had been thinking for long months to do without the services of the two Lyonnaises (as well as Kenza Dali, 33, another executive of the group).
It is without fox in boss or the sommer in an offensive joker that the Women's EDF will play its last two nations League games (the Bleues are already guaranteed to finish at the top of the group), against Switzerland and Iceland. It is this same group which will then prepare the Women's Euro (July 2, July 27), with friendly meetings against Belgium and Brazil, before a group phase against England, Wales and the Netherlands.
In defense, Griedge Mbock and Maëlle Lakrar, who already have a lot of international experience, will now form the central hinge of the Blue.
The Sommer reacts on his networks
In attack, Delphine Cascarino, Kadidiatou Diani, Clara Matéo, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Melvine Malard will share playing time. Laurent Bonadei did not necessarily need Eugénie Le Sommer, 36, in his 23 for the Euro and therefore dismissed it. The phone call to the two star players was terrible, as regretted by the former assistant of Hervé Renard who became number 1.
The pill is obviously struggling to go to the Sommer, who said goodbye to Olympique Lyonnais last weekend (by holding in the semi-finals and then in the Playoff final) and who thought he was concluding his tricolor adventure with a last euro. On her Instagram and on X, Thursday evening, the Morbihannaise only published three blue, white, red hearts with a broken red heart…
