The concern rises on the side of the French women’s football team. Three days before the entrance to the Bleues against England in the Women’s Euro (from July 2 to July 27), the 30 -year -old defender was still absent from training in Switzerland this Wednesday.
On July 24, La Parisienne injured the right calf during an intense training session in Clairefontaine during the competition preparation course. Despite “reassuring examinations”, she declared against Brazil last Friday (3-2 victory).
For the past week, the new Bleues captain, “watched day by day”, has been left at rest and has done indoor care. On Monday at the Blue Training Center in Switzerland, near Lake Constance, she did a few shopping with the crampons away from the group and hit the ball a little, just like Tuesday.
Room care and exercises
But Wednesday, she did not travel to the training grounds and stayed at the French team hotel to do some indoor exercises and to have care, a source close to the Bleues staff told AFP. For the moment, his participation in the euro is not at all questioned, said the source, but that against England on Saturday is very compromised.
These precautions taken by the Bleues staff and this uncertainty recall those around Wendie Renard, touched in the calf at the World Cup in Australia, and Eugénie Le Sommer, injured to adductors during the last Olympic Games.
At the start of the season already, a calf injury (no precision if it was right or left) had removed it several months from the field. When she had just joined PSG, she did not play with her new club in late September until December 13.
“I hope it will be at the top of its form”
From this date, she was no longer embarrassed and chained the matches with her club and in selection, with which she was appointed captain following the non-conqueror of Wendie Renard.
“She is a great player, who puts a lot of impact in her way of defending. He is a very elegant and very calm captain, we love our captain and I hope she will be at the top of her form for this euro, ”launched Tuesday the attacker Melvine Malard.
Apart from the captain, all the players were present in training on Wednesday and therefore available on Saturday (9 p.m.) for the shock against England in Zurich: Amel Majri, also touched in the calf, resumed on Monday with the group and Selma Bacha, victim of a crutch on Friday against Brazil, is also completely given.
