Fully satisfied with this first internship at the head of the France team, Hervé Renard is preparing for a big headache in order to establish his list for the World Cup this summer.
Now less than 100 days from the start of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Hervé Renard is smiling. For his first rally at the head of Les Bleues, the tricolor technician saw the France team chain two great victories once morest Colombia (5-2) and Canada (2-1). Asked following the meeting once morest the Olympic champions, the former Lille resident did not hide his satisfaction.
“It was a fantastic nine days. I can’t say better. When you have players who are disciplined, attentive and very rigorous in their work, it’s pure happiness for a coach. And they have also demonstrated that they are capable, once morest high quality opponents, of being at the level and even more. So there you have it, it was nine very very good days”, he confided.
The list of 23 is not going to be easy
And the native of Aix-les-Bains might be all the more satisfied that he had not hesitated to turn his team upside down before the match once morest Canada, making no less than seven changes in his starting lineup. After a discreet start, the Blues nevertheless delivered a most convincing performance. Enough to augur sacred knots in the brain for the tricolor coach.
Because Hervé Renard will now have to establish his list of 23 players for the World Cup. And therefore remove at least three players from his first list of 26 drawn up for these two matches once morest Colombia and Canada. It will undoubtedly be more than three players since Corinne Deacon’s successor on the tricolor bench has clearly hinted that he is counting on Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Amandine Henry and Kadidiatou Diani, all three injured, for the World Cup. “We will have to follow the end of the championship well because the competition will be tough. The list of 23 is not going to be easy, he assured. There will also be returnees, players who are injured. But that’s football and that’s how we go forward. »
