Wendie Renard explains her withdrawal and receives support from Sonia Bompastor at OL

“It’s complicated to really say things, because these are locker room things, you need more requirements, the cursor must go up, you need more work, it’s a staff, it’s a whole, necessarily it’s the coach who drives, so her name will come back, but it’s a whole”described on TF1, Sunday February 26, Wendie Renard. The Lyonnaise, who had decided to put her international career on hold, was also joined in her defection by attackers Kadidiatou Diani and Marie-Antoinette Katoto.

Also questioned by RMC, the player has still not specifically targeted coach Corinne Deacon. But she gives reasons “purely sporting“. Before adding: “We missed a turn after the 2019 World Cup, there is a momentum that is broken.”

Bompastor in support of Renard

A little earlier, Wendie Renard had received the support of her coach Sonia Bompastor and that of Bordeaux Patrice Lair, on the sidelines of the D1 meeting between the two teams, won by OL (3-0). “Wendie is legitimate because she is a professional, a competitor, attached to the blue jersey. It’s a very difficult decision for her to make. She was very courageous. It was hard to bear for a little while”confided Bompastor. “Wendie puts herself in trouble. But she does it for the collective good and the France team”.

“We have to make sure to listen to the players. Since the 2019 World Cup (defeat in the quarter-finals of the Blue), we did not know how to ride the right wave. A lot of things should have been resolved before this rant from Wendie“, recalled the technician.

“Last year, OL’s victory in the Champions League was the tree that hid the forest. For a while now, I have been warning about the competition that is being organized in Spain, Italy or England. one moment, we will no longer be able to follow. We need a collective reaction, clubs, federation and together”, continued Sonia Bompastor. The FFF’s Comex meets on Tuesday and could spell the end of Deacon’s mandate.