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9:35 p.m., July 03, 2023
Eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Euro Espoirs, the France team has not fulfilled its objective one year from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. A worrying result for the consultants of the Europe 1 Sport program who believe that the he team is not ready one year from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
After their defeat in the quarter-finals of Euro Espoirs 2023 against Ukraine (3-1), the France team is in full doubt. A new failure for the Blueberries which calls into question the level of the team one year from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Present in the program Europe 1 Sport (live every evening from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Europe 1), former player Alain Roche believes that “there was no fluidity in the game, or intermittently”. The ex-Bordelais draws up a damning assessment of the level of France during this competition: “This team suffered almost in every match. Against Italy, if there had been VAR, this team would have lost the match “, he recalled.
The time now counted
This premature elimination does not fulfill the objective set by the president of the French Football Federation, which was to reach the last four. Sylvain Ripoll, their coach, now has a year to find a solution to shine at the Paris 2024 Olympic tournament, for which they are automatically qualified as the organizing country. “It is this team that must make the Olympic Games”, worried Jacques Vendroux in Europe 1 Sport.
Three players over 23 will be able to participate in the competition, suggesting a selection of Kylian Mbappé or Antoine Griezmann to remobilize the troops. But substantive work awaits the staff of the team who still hope to shine at home.