In the shadow of the French basketball, hand, football or rugby teams, they are forgotten by tricolor female group sports. Those who are struggling, year after year, to reach even the accessits of a tournament. A state of affairs that blue volleyball players are wavering at Thai Worlds.
It was necessary to see them collapse with happiness, at the end of an eighth finals where they were readily gave them losing, facing the Chinese Olympic champions in 2016, immediately aware of the scope of their feat. It was necessary to realize, too, by summoning the ages: it was more than half a century (fifty-one years) that the French had no longer qualified for a World Cup. Twelve editions in a row. They had never come out of the hens. In this regard, the victory acquired in high struggle on Sunday is possibly the greatest success in the history of the selection.
It was surely only Héléna Cazaute and her band, those around him and staff to believe in such madness at the beginning of the summer. And even at the start of the competition. They bowed 3-0 in their last two confrontations against the Chinese: during the Olympic Games and the other time even more recently, in the League of Nations (VNL) in June.
The feat achieved Sunday validates the lightning metamorphosis of this group in recent months, but whose foundations have been affixed in the past five or six years. When the group was still playing
