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Cloudy period for the French women’s team. Currently the leader of its qualifying group for Euro 2022 tied with Austria, which it meets by the end of November in a decisive meeting, the training guided by Corinne Deacon is indeed experiencing an internal crisis. And it is precisely the coach who is questioned. During an interview broadcast this Sunday evening at the Canal Football Club (CFC), captain Amandine Henry, not retained to the great surprise at the last gathering at the end of October, denounced the unstable situation experienced by the players in the selection.
“I know I’m taking a risk, if I don’t do it myself, who is going to do it?” Asks the Lyonnaise, before going back to Deacon’s decision not to retain her previously: “I was a bit shocked, I had to question myself, I told myself that there was a qualification for the Euro. It was not the timing, I told myself not to be selfish, show the example. your moods aside. ” The midfielder relates of a call that would have lasted “14-15 seconds”: “This phone call, I was shocked, she told me that the list comes out tomorrow, ‘you will not be there compared to your current performance. ‘ I’m still shocked, I say ok good game bye. “
“I saw girls crying in their room”
For Amandine Henry, the coach would not have digested that some players of Olympique Lyonnais speak to Noël Le Graët during a visit to the Rhône. “I think it happened the week when Noël Le Graët came to OL to give us a medal after our victory in the Champions League. It’s been a while since I had heavy and negative feedback, this n “was no longer possible, something had to be done. The arrival of the president was a godsend to say things that were wrong,” says La Gone, for whom the link with Corinne Deacon is “unfortunately” broken. And this, for a long time and especially during the World Cup in France in 2019: “I saw girls cry in their room, I cried in my room It was a total chaos”.
“This is the feeling of the majority of the team, assures Henry. Some girls do not dare to speak. There is fear. (…) I understand them. I am 31 years old, I am a captain. , if I do not speak who will speak? “, she asks again, before concluding:” France must win a title, especially with the qualities that we have. It is a golden generation , we have to go to the end. I’m fed up with that. You stay there, you play the ostrich, maybe that puts me in danger, if it can help the France team, I do it “, insists Amandine Henry, who wants a meeting soon between the staff, the players and the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) to put everything in flat. A message heard by Noël Le Graët?
“It’s not sustainable”
In the wake of the interview, the boss of French football did not fail to react to it. From daily life The team, the Breton leader indicates not necessarily tasting this new pass of arms between the players and the coach. “It will have to get better. The Lyonnaises form the best team in France and far enough away. They are European champions and deserve to be selected. After, the coach, in a certain context, made her choices . But it must play the best possible team. Everyone must make an effort, “he calls to start, before taking a slight position.
“There is a match in the coming days (November 27) against Austria, at Guingamp in addition … For the moment, Corinne is undefeated since the World Cup. But I’ll take a closer look. . To be in conflict with the best players of France, it is not durable, estimates the president of the 3F, who raises: “We should not have this kind of problems at this level. The best players, that They shouldn’t be hard to lead. They’re smart. The coach’s interest, I repeat once again, is to select the best players. ” The former boss of EA Guingamp specifies that he should meet Amandine Henry and her teammates when they come near the Breton city at the end of the month.
????️ Amandine Henry: “Now is the time to solve the problems, not in three years (…)” pic.twitter.com/s6Bm2OOIAK
— Canal Football Club (@CanalFootClub) November 15, 2020
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