The post-2023 World Cup now begins for the France team. This Friday afternoon, Hervé Renard announced his list of 25 players to face Portugal (in Valenciennes) and Austria (in Vienna) in the Nations League (September 22 and 26). Several players are returning: Griedge Mbock, Amandine Henry, Sandy Baltimore and Oriane Jean-François. Also note the presence of Julie Dufour and Jade Le Guilly, who have never been selected until now.
“It is a great pleasure for me to see her back in the selection. Today, she is not capable of playing entire matches, we will have to be very careful, but it was important that she was with us, she was and will remain a senior player.“, indicated the technician at the FFF headquarters about Griedge Mbock. The player, seriously injured in a knee in September 2022 against Greece, entered at the very end of the match during the Champions Trophy, won by Lyon against PSG (2-0), Sunday, for its first appearance in competition in a year.
Amandine Henry, for her part, was forced to abandon the World Cup less than two weeks before the event after being injured in a calf when she had just been recalled to the Blues after more than two years of absence. Hervé Renard also “very good news“of another injured person who missed the 2023 World Cup, striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto.”I hope that by the next course she will be with us“, did he declare.