Blue: last list of the year, with the Hamraoui affair in the background
Corinne Deacon, coach of the French women’s team, delivers her last list of the calendar year on Thursday, two weeks after the aggression of international Kheira Hamraoui who, once again, will have to wait before hoping to take on again the tricolor tunic.
Corinne Deacon, coach of the French women’s team, delivers her last list of the calendar year on Thursday, two weeks after the aggression of international Kheira Hamraoui who, once again, will have to wait before hoping to take on again the tricolor tunic.
The boss of Les Bleues is expected at 11:00 am in front of the press gathered in the auditorium of the French Football Federation (FFF) to list the names of the players selected for the reception of Kazakhstan and Wales, the most serious opponent of the qualifications for the World-2023, on November 26 and 30 in Brittany.
For once, the questions should relate less to her choices, sometimes divisive, than to the extra-sporting affair that has shaken women’s football in recent days, and on which she has not yet expressed herself.
Midfielder Kheira Hamraoui, during training for the France team, July 31, 2016, five days before the start of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
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Deacon will probably be keen to evacuate this highly publicized news item as quickly as possible, but the ball might come back just as quickly. Because if the story shook the Paris SG, which Hamraoui joined this summer, it directly or indirectly concerned several French internationals playing in the capital.
– « Difficult test » –
The former FC Barcelona player, first, came out injured and shocked from the violent ambush that was handed to her on November 4, after returning from a team dinner, and during which two masked attackers had her attacked with the iron bar at the level of the legs.
The 31-year-old « suffered significant physical and psychological damage », proclaimed her lawyer, Me Saïd Harir, demanding that « her privacy be respected, as well as her choice to remain silent in this difficult ordeal ».
The French Aminata Diallo, during the match of the SheBelieves Cup against England, on March 1, 2018 in Colombus (Ohio, USA)
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The episode also weighed heavily on Aminata Diallo, her teammate in club and selection, a time suspected by investigators to be involved in the assault, which she witnessed.
Arrested and then held in police custody for 36 hours, the 26-year-old player saw her face appear in the gazettes around the world before being finally released, without any charge against her. The environment born in Grenoble remains « very affected psychologically by this media surge, » said Tuesday his lawyer, Mourad Battikh, on BFMTV.
Hamraoui and Diallo have not reappeared since in the PSG group, which plays a Champions League match Thursday in Madrid without them against Real. Deacon will therefore not convene the first, which she recalled after two and a half years of absence in October but which had given up due to injury, nor the second, convened last month after this crime.
– Fox still too fair –
Serbian midfielder Jelena Cankovic, battling French defender Griedge Mbock Bathy, during qualifying for Euro-2021, on November 9, 2019 at Matmut Atlantique Stadium in Bordeaux
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The champions of France should however send other representatives to Clairefontaine Monday, on the first day of the rally, from Sakina Karchaoui to Marie-Antoinette Katoto, via Grace Geyoro or Kadidiatou Diani.
On the side of Olympique Lyonnais, who ultra-dominated PSG 6-1 on Sunday in the shock at the top of the championship, central defender Griedge Mbock will finally be able to make his comeback in the Yvelines, after more than a year and a half unavailability (injury to an Achilles tendon).
French defender Wendie Renard clears the ball in front of her Swiss counterpart Thais Hurni, during their friendly match, on February 23, 2021 at the Stade Saint-Symphorien in Longeville-lès-Metz
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Conversely, her teammate and captain Wendie Renard will not be on the trip to Vannes and Guingamp, where the Bleues play their last two matches of the calendar year. The Martiniquaise has not played again since her muscle injury to a thigh contracted on September 21 during training with the France team.
The Lyonnaises Perle Morroni, Delphine Cascarino and Melvine Malard should however respond. At 21, their teammate Selma Bacha also bangs on the door of the Blue, carried by a great start to the season and by the long injury of Amel Majri, which she replaces in the left lane of OL.
Finally, as with every list, the fate reserved for midfielder Amandine Henry and striker Eugenie Le Sommer, recently eliminated with OL Reign in the semi-finals of the American championship, despite a new goal scored, will necessarily be watched. Both players should be left out again.
By Jérémy TALBOT / Paris (AFP) / © 2021 AFP
