Hervé Renard appointed new coach of Les Bleues until August 2024

After the hearing of several candidates, the former coach of Saudi Arabia was appointed head of the Blue on Thursday. He succeeds Corinne Deacon, dismissed on March 9.

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Hervé Renard, coach of Saudi Arabia during the World Cup in Qatar, November 26, 2022. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP)

Corinne Deacon’s successor, dismissed on March 9, is now known. Hervé Renard, 54, was appointed Thursday, March 30, by the French Football Federation (FFF), new coach of the French women’s team. Until now coach of Saudi Arabia, a nation he made shine at the last World Cup by beating Argentina, future world champion, the Savoyard finds a bench in France. He takes the reins of a selection marked by the passage of Corinne Deacon, testifies the rebellion of certain executives of the group.

Passed by Lille and Sochaux, Hervé Renard led several African selections (Zambia, Angola, Ivory Coast, Morocco), and won two African Cups of Nations (Zambia 2012 and Ivory Coast 2015). From now on, the French technician, with his experience and his ability to federate a group, is preparing to take up a new challenge: leading a women’s team for the first time.

He only has a few months left to best prepare for the upcoming World Cup (July 20-August 20, 2023), as well as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The work promises to be immense because the question is whether Hervé Renard will have a full workforce, and if the executives who had withdrawn from the selection (Wendie Renard, Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Kadidiatou Diani and Perle Morroni) will return at the next rally in April.


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