EThey followed their captain Wendie Renard, not on the playing field, but on that of the rebellion against their coach Corinne Deacon and the French Football Federation (FFF): Kadidiatou Diani, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Perle Morroni have their tour announced that they were giving up the France team.
This spectacular gesture is less a surprise than the culmination of chronic tensions between the players and the boss of the selection. And it occurs in the context of the institutional vacuum created by the “withdrawal” of the president of the FFF, Noël Le Graët.
With the exhaustion of the presidential regime of the Federation, the legitimacy of Corinne Deacon, which depended only on that of Noël Le Graët, no longer holds. And that’s all “current system” that Wendie Renard, in her words, “No [peut] more endorse ».
fights for fairness
This kind of power struggle is commonplace in men’s clubs, such as the « bras de fer » with boycott of training to obtain a transfer, or the famous “resignation of players” Who “let go of the coach” by letting slip the match which will be fatal to him.
These tensions are partly due to the position of strength acquired by the players, especially those who have a ” Status “ and market value. The players are not quite there, but the national selections, the main media showcases for their discipline, constitute a privileged field of struggle.
Norwegian Ada Hegerberg had broken with hers for a long time, demanding more consideration from her federation for her. Alexia Putellas, Ballon d’or 2022, and a dozen of her teammates assume this season to be excluded from the Spanish team after demanding the departure of the coach.
Under the threat of sanctions, the Canadians gave up their strike two weeks ago, while protesting against the lack of financial means allocated to their selection and the unequal treatment. The fight for equity in bonuses and image rights has been successfully waged in the United States, Norway and Brazil.
Personalities like the American Megan Rapinoe have embodied this activism for equality, but also for LGBT rights. Many sportswomen have fought against sexist and sexual violence or dress orders, for better media coverage or parity in the authorities.
In January, Icelandic Sara Björk Gunnarsdottir denounced the drop in salary that her club, Olympique Lyonnais, had inflicted on her during her pregnancy, then her sidelining at the end of it.
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