Paris (AFP)

The qualifier for the Euro-2021 begins on October 8 in Kazakhstan for Corinne Deacon's Bleues, whose choices will be scrutinized on Thursday during the announcement of the players selected for this long trip.

The coach of the France team will deliver its list from 11:30 from the Paris headquarters of the French Football Federation.

After a first warm-up round against Spain (2-0) at the end of August in friendly, this is the beginning of the serious things for the French women who, for lack of ticket of entry for the Olympic Games of 2020, have for single objective to qualify for the next European Championship in England.

The beginning of the adventure, after a friendly test run on 4 October in Nîmes against Iceland, will be written in Shymkent, southern Kazakhstan, for the first match in official competition since the quarter-final of the World Cup lost in late June against the United States.

At the end of the summer, Deacon had simply recalled all available globalists, as his male counterpart Didier Deschamps had done the year before after the victory at the Russian World Cup.

Will she renew Thursday this "group logic" for the matches of October, or will she open the door of the team of France to newcomers or ghosts?

- Katoto, suspense intact -

Against Spain, the 45-year-old technician was deprived of goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, defender Eve Perisset and midfielder Maeva Clémaron, usual substitute selection, all injured. Justine Lerond (Metz), Elisa De Almeida (Montpellier) and Léa Khelifi (Paris SG), called instead, had not played.

The absentees of September apply again for a place in the 23, but their chances of returning to the group are unequal. Peyraud-Magnin did not resume the competition until Sunday with Arsenal, later than Clémaron returned mid-September with Everton.

As for Perisset, not selected for the Trophy champions on Saturday, his return is scheduled Thursday for the sixteenth final return of the Champions League in Paris against Braga, said one in his club.

Her Paris teammates Grace Geyoro and Kadidiatou Diani, holders in the last game against Spain, should logically be called by Deacon. The suspense is on the other hand thicker concerning Marie-Antoinette Katoto.

The young attacker of PSG (20 years), more seen under the tricolor since November 2018, hopes to reconnect quickly with the team of France.

But the best scorer of the last French Championship faces the competition of a group of attackers firmly installed in the selection, like Lyonnaises Eugenie Le Sommer and Delphine Cascarino, Bordeaux Viviane Asseyi, Montpelliéraine Valérie Gauvin and the Parisian Diani.

Emelyne Laurent is probably the one who will look at the announcement of the list of Deacon with the most excitement. The Lyonnaise, loaned this season to Bordeaux, is very regularly called at the Blue, certainly, but it remains confined to a replacement role that places it under the direct threat of Katoto.

The schedule of Bleues, who play a friendly match against Iceland Friday, October 4 in Nîmes, before launching their qualification campaign for the Euro-2021:

Friday, October 4: France-Iceland friendly, Nimes at 21H00

Tuesday, October 8: Kazakhstan-France in qualification for the Euro-2021, in Shymkent at 17H00 (French time)

Saturday, November 9: France-Serbia in qualification for Euro-2021, in Bordeaux

Friday, April 10, 2020: France-Macedonia qualifies for Euro-2021

Tuesday, April 14, 2020: Austria-France in qualification for Euro-2021

Friday, June 5, 2020: France-Austria qualifies for Euro-2021

Tuesday, June 9, 2020: France-Kazakhstan in qualification for Euro-2021

Friday 18 September 2020: Serbia-France qualifies for Euro-2021

Tuesday 22 September 2020: Macedonia-France qualifies for Euro-2021

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