Faced with a crisis in the run-up to the World Cup, the French Football Federation acted, announcing after a short investigation that Deacon had had to leave. The federation said the estrangement between her and the team had grown so great that it had “reached a point of no return”.
Herve Renard, who was enjoying a successful and lucrative stopover in a traveling coaching career in Saudi Arabia, said he acted impulsively when the news broke. He contacted Jean-Michel Aulas, one of the most influential men in French football and member of the board of directors of the French Federation. Renard met him ten years ago, when he failed to become coach of the Lyon men’s team. He told Olas he wanted to be considered for his opening.
He promised a major change in his career. Until the moment he picked up his phone to text Olias, Renard said, he had only once thought of coaching the women: a flight of fancy that came when he watched France play in the last World Cup. He then said that his interest only lasted “maybe only a few seconds”.
But now that his interest in coaching a women’s team has been reciprocated for the first time, he runs into a problem. To take the job, he would need clearance from football officials in Saudi Arabia, where he was under contract, and would have to take a significant pay cut. Saudi labor paid no less than “20 times” what it would earn training French women, Renard explained with a smile.
“When you’re in Saudi Arabia, that’s not exactly the reality,” he said. “So sometimes it’s good to be realistic. »
2023-07-22 20:13:22
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