Eliminated in the quarter-finals of the World Cup after a Homeric game against Australia, the French have not given in to pessimism and want to take their revenge at the Games next summer.
The French women’s team therefore failed to reach, for the second time in its history, the semi-finals of the Women’s World Cup. Beaten after a crazy scenario by the host country, Australia (0-0, 7-6 pens), in the hostile arena of Brisbane, for the third time in a row in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, the troupe by Hervé Renard obviously came out with tons of regrets from this missed meeting.
«I’m disappointed, disgusted, that’s the kind of feeling you don’t like to haveconfided Eugénie Le Sommer. I really felt that we were capable of winning. I believed in it until the end, and it’s even more difficult when you believed in it so much“Said the top scorer in the history of Les Bleues (92 goals), who again saw her dreams of a title with the national team fly away.
«It’s complicated, honestly it’s hard, we went through all the emotions, but if there’s one thing to remember, it’s that we can be proud of the game we did“, wanted to be positive…
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