The president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Philippe Diallo returned to the elimination of the French team on penalties against Australia during the quarter-finals of the 2023 World Cup. aroused “disappointment and frustration”: “disappointment because we were eliminated in the quarter-finals, after finishing first in our group, without losing any of the five games played. We have the feeling that we were very close to breaking the fate of the quarter-finals which seems to be pursuing our French women’s team, ”said the president.
Two goals: the World Cup and the Olympics
But he does not see this new elimination as a “failure”, because he has found a “united” France team and “a lot of positive signs which mean that when fate wants to be with us, we should be on the way to recovery. success “.
This elimination in the quarters, the glass ceiling never broken by the Blue, when the objective was around the half, does not however call into question the position of Hervé Renard. “We had two goals in our calendar: the World Cup and the Olympics. It will be on this set that we will see if the objectives are met, ”recalls Philippe Diallo. The president of the FFF, present in Australia for the World Cup, also welcomed the development of women’s football with stadium attendance up 30% compared to the last World Cup. And a total endowment that has been tripled to go “from 50 million to 150 million dollars”.