Just a year ago, Corinne Diacre delivered her last list as coach of the France team.
Now five months before the start of the Olympic Games, Hervé Renard’s press conference next Wednesday is particularly anticipated. Not only because the French coach will deliver his list for the Final Four of the League of Nations, but also because of his stated desire to join Ivory Coast during the African Cup of Nations.
Expectations had not been as high around Corinne Diacre a year ago, when the former coach of the Bleues delivered her group for the French Tournament. We did not know then that this was the last list of the former central defender. The French women’s team immediately won this French Tournament, but ten days later, Wendie Renard precipitated her loss by launching a putsch against the native of Croix, withdrawing from the Blues as long as the Northerner remained in the business.
These events appeared totally inconceivable, a month earlier, when the list for the French Tournament was announced. As usual, Corinne Deacon certainly had a new snubbed Amandine Henry or Eugénie Le Sommer, who had become undesirable. On the other hand, she had decided to recall Kheira Hamraoui, more than a year after her last selection and fifteen months after the attack of which she had been the victim.
“She has playing time in 2022. This tournament will allow me to do a squad review”justified Corinne Diace at a press conference, ensuring not to fear the reaction of her players regarding this great return of the Parisian midfielder. “Fear me, never. We play football, she performs well at PSG,” she affirmed.
“I’m going to see what she’s going to do with us. I want to see what athletic impact she can bring to us, explained the coach of the France team. She had a little less playing time at the start of the season with PSG but Paris will have important deadlines quickly. The club will need its entire workforce. This is an opportunity for Kheira to show us her desire and I know that her desire is very important to join the France groupshe added. He’s an element among the team, we’re not going to make a case of Hamraoui. She wants to move forward, so do we. We will leave what happened in the past, look to the future and concentrate on the field. » Words that would appear empty a month later.
