Football: “Unity and solidarity are essential” launches Deschamps to Les Bleues before the World Cup

Two weeks after the last gathering of the Blues concluded with a success at the expense of Greece (1-0) during the qualifiers for Euro 2024 in Germany, Didier Deschamps made a detour this Monday at the national center of Clairefontaine to visit the French women’s team which is preparing for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand (July 20 to August 20).

The national coach was invited by his counterpart Hervé Renard to speak to the 26 players to give them some advice just over two weeks before the start of the competition. “It is above all a sporting adventure but it is also a human adventure, insists the coach in a video of just over two minutes relayed by the FFF. There is what happens on the pitch, but there are also moments of sharing, with obviously moments that can be more or less difficult for each of you between those who will play, those who will play little and there there are some who will certainly not play. »

The finest track record in French football with two World Cups to his credit (as a player in 1998 then coach in 2018) gave some keys to allowing the Tricolores to achieve a good run in a competition where they only reached the half- finals only once, in 2011 (quarter-finalist in 2015 and 2019).

“You will do everything to get what you want to get, but humanly you will have a lot of time to spend together with different characters and personalities in each of you, he says. But inevitably, this solidarity, this union, is something that is essential. It doesn’t win matches, but I can assure you, having experienced it, that when there isn’t that, it’s almost impossible to be able to experience victory and success. Think about it. »

Didier Deschamps then received a flocked jersey with his name and number 7. “Listen carefully to your coach and his staff. “, he concluded before leaving. Les Bleues will face Ireland on Thursday in a friendly before a final warm-up match on July 14 in Australia. The daughters of Hervé Renard will launch their World Cup on July 23 against Jamaica.