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Everything has gone very fast, this Wednesday, March 20, when it comes to the position of coach of the French women’s national team. “Hervé (Renard) has a contract that expires after the Olympics, at the end of August 2024, and he has made it known that he is not at all sure that he will stay after that,” French Football Federation president Philippe Diallo said in an interview with Le Figaro published late this afternoon. His desire is to see his project through to the end and not to pursue it. “
This data was evidenced in the interest in the draw for the Olympic Games football tournaments that will be held in the evening at the Paris 2024 venue. “I have announced to the federation that I will not continue,” said Hervé Renard. I’m out of contract on August 31 and I’m back in men’s football. “
Various profiles imaginable in D1F
To succeed the former Saudi Arabia coach at the helm of Les Bleues, other profiles will likely be studied in the coming months. Naturally, some already discussed names for Corinne Diacre’s successor in March 2023 are resurfacing. Sonia Bompastor, coach of Olympique Lyonnais since April 2021, is a credible advantage.
Followed by Chelsea to take charge of the women’s segment of Les Bleus, the former foreigner (156 caps) has a more than honourable record with OL: two French championships (2022, 2023), one Champions League (2022). They have won the Champions League (quarter-final first leg won at Benfica (1-2)) and are on course for their 17th D1 title.
It is also possible that several colleagues will be summoned for an interview on the Boulevard de Grenelle. The call-up of Gérard Prêcheur, who was on the OL bench between 2014 and 2017 and then coach of PSG from 2022 to September 2023, is probably on a short list. Replaced by his son Jocelyn on the Parisian bench, the former director of Pôle France Féminin and member of the National Technical Directorate had declared himself flattered to see his call-up related to the French national team, after Diacre’s departure. contacted,” he told L’Équipe.
Sandrine Soubeyrand, who holds the record for most caps for Les Bleues (198), could logically be led, one day, to make the dreams of the national team come true. She, whose coaching career began with France’s U17 women’s national team in 2014, then led him to shine with Paris FC, which qualified this season for the organisational level of the Champions League for the first time in its history.
Another figure in French women’s football, Patrice Lair, has never lived up to the Les Bleues, despite several stints on the benches of the big French teams. After coaching, Montpellier (2005-2007), Lyon (2010-2014) and PSG (2016-2018), the Saint-Brieuc native has just been fired from the bench of the Girondins de Bordeaux women’s team due to “his critical attitude in public towards the control of the club and his strategy after the attack against Dijon FCO”.
An in-house solution?
The FFF may also believe in an internal promotion. Former DTN player Éric Blahic, current assistant to Hervé Renard in the Les Bleues squad. The Suresnes venue has long been acting on the sidelines as Jocelyn Gourvennec’s right-hand man, whom he had approached over 3F before the latter nevertheless opted for Renard, in March 2023.
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“I met with the variety committee, the task was interesting, that’s what the guy who has just been sacked from his position at FC Nantes told L’Équipe. But my priority is still the day-to-day at the club. I declined after the 3 days of mirroring we had given each other. “
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