“It’s a great team, but not yet a great team”, admits Hervé Renard, the new coach of Les Bleues

Just inducted coach of the French women’s team, Hervé Renard returned to Tout le sport, Tuesday April 4, on the reasons for his arrival and his ambitions for the future. “It’s passion, the beauty of major events, a World Cup in three months in Australia, and the Olympic Games in France”he explains when listing the reasons that led him to take the job.

“It’s an honor to sleep in Didier Deschamps’ room”

The former coach of Saudi Arabia appreciates the discovery of Clairefontaine, and the fact of sharing the room of Didier Deschamps, the coach of the Blues. “It is an honor […] I’ll try to make it clean”, he laughs. But he is above all fixed on his ambitions to win this team with a still virgin record. “They have shown that they are a good team, but not yet a great team”he acknowledges. “You have to go steal them to get new goals not yet achieved.”