Despite the call for mobilization launched by Hervé Renard, the Groupama Stadium will be sparse for the France-Germany clash. To the great dismay of Amandine Henry.
Qualified for the Final Four of the first Nations League, the France team has an appointment with Germany for the first semi-final. A meeting that the Blues will have the chance to play at Groupama Stadium… but which is hardly successful.
Indeed, just a stone’s throw from the meeting, only 25,000 seats were taken. The Rhone enclosure, which can accommodate nearly 60,000 spectators, therefore risks feeling hollow. A situation that Amandine Henry regretted in the pages of Le Parisien. “There is still work to be done. It is hopeless. What more needs to be done? We, the players, give our all. It’s a beautiful poster, it’s a beautiful stadium, a beautiful city…”lamented the former Lyon player.
A complicated situation?
Other selections do not encounter these problems, which leaves Henry perplexed. “ We ask ourselves the question: what can be done to fill stadiums? When we see other countries, it works”she thundered.
The French Football Federation had offered places at 10 euros in a bid to attract the public. And Hervé Renard had made a call for mobilization. “ It’s the perfect place to play a semi-final in a fantastic stadium », had slipped the French coach to the media. “ We need the support of the public, it’s important. As a Rhône-Alpes native by birth, I can only congratulate myself on playing here. I was born 100 km from here, in Aix-les-Bains. I appeal to the Savoyards to come and watch the match too.
