A time removed from the France group, Eugénie Le Sommer has returned to Les Bleues under the leadership of Hervé Renard. Not without resentment.
Eugénie Le Sommer did not digest. The friendly match of April 13, 2021 against the United States remains engraved in his memory. For a long time, the person concerned believed that this date had marked the end of her international career. Shunned for two years by Corinne Deacon, the striker had to wait for the end of her reign and the arrival at the helm of Hervé Renard to reconnect with the France team.
With the status of top scorer in the history of Les Bleues (89 goals in 179 caps), Eugénie Le Sommer is preparing to start her fourth World Cup against Jamaica this Sunday. A nice revenge, tinged with bitterness. Her ousting by the coach who landed last March, the OL player still admits today: “ I don’t understand it and I find it a shame “. And to blow with the Figaro: “ We are all different, with different personalities, seeing things differently. It wasn’t my perception of things, but I couldn’t help it. It’s very difficult to change some people… »
” A radical change “
More incisive in the rest of the interview, Eugénie Le Sommer severely tackles Corinne Deacon, without naming her: “ It’s a drastic change (with Hervé Renard, editor’s note). The day and the night. I can’t talk about the times when I was no longer called up, but there, when I arrived, I saw smiles that I hadn’t seen in selection for a very long time. Everyone was hyper-enthusiastic, happy to be there, for this revival and this new page that was beginning to be written.. »
