Bleues coach Corinne Deacon announced Thursday that she had entrusted the captain’s armband to Lyonnaise Wendie Renard, from whom she had withdrawn at the start of her term in 2017.
«The captain from tomorrow and until the Euro will be Wendie», Announced the coach of the Bleues Corinne Deacon to The team and theAFP, present in Patras on the eve of Greece-France Friday (5:00 p.m.) at the start of qualifying for the 2023 World Cup. “We first think of the general interest, of the team. This news was announced and accepted by everyone in a top way.She added.
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This surprise announcement comes when Deacon has made the choice not to summon Amandine Henry, her captain at the World Cup-2019 with whom she is cold, in September, nor Eugénie Le Sommer, one of the vice-captains and also the top scorer of the l history of the Blues. The coach had withdrawn the armband from Renard shortly after arriving on the French bench in the summer of 2017, believing that the central defender of Lyon should focus more on her individual performances.
We continue our march forward
Corinne Deacon
In his autobiography My star, published at the end of 2019, the player recounts the brutal announcement of this decision: “” We wanted to see you in relation to the captain’s armband because I find that you are at 40% of your capacities in the French team. walks, the level is easy, in the European Cup too, but the international level, you have not yet crossed “. I fall from the clouds, stunned. Four years of captaincy swept away in less than five minutes.“Asked Thursday about this episode, Deacon preferred to project himself on the future:”We continue our march forwardShe said.
At 31, Renard is a key figure in Olympique Lyonnais, of which she is captain and with whom she has won the Champions League seven times.
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