Large hiccup around blue

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

Appointed to replace a Hervé Renard unable to do better than a quarter -final during the 2024 Olympic tournament, Laurent Bonadei did not do better with the Bleues during Euro 2025. The new tricolor coach also missed the start of the last square. A new disillusionment for the French women's team, and consequently the adjournment of a promotion campaign for women's football.

This is in any case what the official version given by the French Football Federation says, and reported this Monday by the L'Équipe site on Monday. The media seems not to be completely certain of the whole and total veracity of the thing because it evokes certain members of the FFF executive committee which “Has wanted to talk about the subject with its publication”.

According to the latter, the content of this adjourned promotional campaign was tried “Sexist” and not corresponding to expectations. A big hide and a bad point for the boss of the federation, Philippe Diallo, who set an ambitious number of licensees for 2028. When his mandate will end, he hopes that there will be a minimum of 500,000 dismissed on the clock.

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Philippe Diallo and the FFF would therefore have been sealed by the Road exit from Kadidiatou Diani, Selma Bacha and the rest of the French team players during the last euro. A competition before which Laurent Bonadei had made certain strong choices, such as that of doing without several executives, such as the experienced Wendie Renard and Eugénie Le Sommer.

To win a first major trophy in their history, the Bleues will have to go back. Same thing for the federation promotion campaign.