Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines (France) (AFP)
"Yes it's an advantage over a team in the center of Paris, especially with the weather," said Philippe Joly, the assistant coach of the Blue, Tuesday, who obtained from Fifa the right to settle in Clairefontaine before the quarterfinal of the World Cup against the United States Friday.
"Today, we have Clairefontaine over five days to prepare for this match. (...) It's an advantage, because we are at home, it's our home. We have our benchmarks, we have all the tools to recover, "he added about the mother house of French football, installed in Yvelines.
"After, it was so complicated for a few months, we take Clairefontaine willingly (...) Since January, I can tell you that there have been sequences not easy to manage. waited a long time before knowing if we had a base camp or not, "also recalled Philippe Joly in a press conference.
The guard Sarah Bouhaddi spoke about it more briefly: "The advantage is that we are at home as you said, we have the facilities on site.We will be able to work quietly without journalist, without support, be concentrated on ourselves, in our bubble ".
American women have to settle in the Paris region, in a hotel in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), with a training ground in Croissy (Yvelines).
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