As soon as he took power, by replacing Valérie Garnier, thanked after eight years (and six international medals) concluded on the bronze won at the Tokyo Games, Jean-Aimé Toupane hammered home his only ambition: to allow the Bleues to break the ceiling of glass that prevented them from winning the Euro, failing in the final five times in a row (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021). A fallen ambition on Saturday evening after the defeat in the semi-finals against Belgium (63-67). Between the speeches and the methods used by the coach, there were sometimes a few worlds of difference, in the adhesion of the players as in the results.
