The players of the France team were full of praise for their new coach after Les Bleues’ new victory on Tuesday against Canada (2-1).
Hervé Renard and his players could hardly imagine a better baptism. For the first gathering of Les Bleues, just three days after the appointment of the new tricolor coach to replace Corinne Deacon, the France team has indeed offered itself two great victories. Four days after a stunning first against Colombia (5-2), the French have indeed offered the scalp of Canada, Olympic champion in title. A 2-1 success just tarnished by the gross error of Constance Picaud on the reduction of the score of the Canadians.
“What is unfortunate is this goal that we conceded on an error and which makes us go from a very successful match to a successful match”, did not fail to raise Hervé Renard at the end of the meeting. But it was the only false note of the evening. “It was a fantastic course. I had in front of me players who were disciplined, attentive, rigorous in their work. This is happiness “, he assured. And the happiness is shared in view of the reactions of his players.
We are very happy to have it
“He brings good humor, freshness. He asks us to play relaxed and above all not to take the lead.underlined Delphine Cascarino in remarks relayed by West France. « We have the impression of knowing him for a long time, we have this complicity with him. And it’s a coach who pushes us in his speeches, added the first scorer against Canada, Grace Geyoro. We like to play together, it shows. We are creating a strong group, a unit, with the staff, with the players. And we leave with a smile! »
The second scorer, Eva Le Garrec, had another vision of this separation. “We are sad to leave each other. Because we don’t know what tomorrow will bring! ” she indeed confided after having, too, praised the merits of the coach: “He is a ‘leader of men’ as we often say with him, and humanly that makes the difference, he is very focused on the collective. We are very happy to have him. » Delphine Cascarino, she underlined the tactical sense of the new Blue guide. “He knows how to reshuffle the team when things aren’t going well tactically, we saw him again this evening”, she observed.
