Amandine Henry with Corinne Deacon (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)
Not retained by Corinne Deacon to play the Euro with the Blue this summer, Amandine Henry will not “never a cross on the France team”.
Scorer and voted best player in the final of the Champions League versus BarcelonaAmandine Henry hovers on the roof of theEurope since this Saturday, May 21, 2022. Freshly crowned at the top of the continent with theOLher five club teammates (Fox, Mbock, Bacha, Cascarino and Malard) all flew away with theFrench team to dispute theEuro 2022. But despite her very good form displayed at the end of the season, the Lyon midfielder was not part of the trip. Not retained by Corinne Deacon, Amandine Henry spent the summer recharging his batteries with his family far from the English lawns where the European championship was being played. She got used to it. “It was not heartbreaking, I accepted the coach’s choice. I watched the matches on TV as a supporter. We are not going to mope, there are worse things in life “she confided in a long interview for Progress.
She still believes in a return
Captain of France at the last World Cup, Amandine Henry was notably expressed, in November 2020, on the relationship problems with the coach of the Blue ones, just after not having been selected by the latter. Since then, she has not worn the tricolor jersey. “But I’ve always said it: as long as I play football, I will never give up on the France team. I still believe in it. Everything is possible, we’ll see.”she slipped in the columns of the regional daily.
Revenue at the training center Decines on July 25, the 33-year-old Lyonnaise should find her compatriots, eliminated in the semi-finals of the last Euro, this Thursday in the afternoon.
