DECRYPTION – Under the leadership of Jean-Aimé Toupane and in the absence of executives, the France team attacks the quarter-finals of the World Cup with new leaders.
Les Bleues are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, and that’s already very good. If the French team won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics last year, and silver at the last five European championships, it lowered its ambition under duress, at the start of the Australian World Cup last Thursday . Four potential holders had withdrawn through injury: Olivia Epoupa, Bria Hartley, Marine Johannès and, above all, Sandrine Gruda, top scorer in the history of Les Bleues (2,784 points in 215 selections).
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