“Knowing her, I think it’s a very difficult decision to make,” says her coach in Lyon

“Knowing Wendie, as she is very professional and very competitive, I think it’s a very difficult decision to make but in my opinion, mentally, it was also difficult for her”confides on Saturday February 25 to France Bleu Gironde, Sonia Bompastor, the coach in Lyon of the football player Wendie Renard, captain and defender of the Bleues who has 142 selections with this team and who announced Friday to withdraw from the French team.

Five months before the Women’s World Cup, three key players from the France team made this decision on Friday: Kadidiatou Diani, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Wendie Renard. She was the first to make this announcement. All three require “changes” within the selection and in the management of the France team.

Sonia Bompastor is therefore not surprised: “It’s not necessarily a surprise on a personal level because we had a lot of exchanges with Wendie lately, concerning the fact that she sometimes felt out of step with several subjects in the France team.”

In a press release published a few hours after the players’ announcements, the FFF declares that it has taken “knowledge of the statements of Wendie Renard, Kadidiatou Diani and Marie-Antoinette Katoto. Its executive committee, meeting on February 28, will take up the issue on this occasion (…) the FFF would like to remind you that no individuality is above the French team institution”added the French Football Federation.