How OL became the most beautiful winning machine in French sport

• Real Madrid waited sixty years to find his successor in terms of total control in the European Cup: it is OL, winner on Sunday of their fifth consecutive Champions League.
• This new coronation of the band at Wendie Renard, Sunday against Wolfsburg (3-1), takes on a particular meaning in a country hardly known for its culture of winning.

“We're going to savor it well because it's a bit exceptional. Fortunately with this "a little", the defender of the Bleues Wendie Renard took the trouble to qualify Sunday the success of Lyon in the final of the Champions League against Wolfsburg (3-1). After all, this is only OL's fifth consecutive European title, the seventh in the last ten editions, and the 31st trophy since the creation of this women's section so dear to Jean-Michel Aulas, sixteen years ago. .

Joking aside, this undisputed supremacy over the whole of Europe poses more than ever a question: has French sport already created such a winning machine? We see you coming with the indisputable preamble of "it is impossible to compare the eras" and "the homogeneity of the competition is quite different for the current PSG or the OM Tapie era than in a discipline that has long seen Umea shine, Potsdam and Tyresö ”.

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"Always a special flavor"

However, it cannot be trivial to win two European crowns after only seven years of existence (2011 and 2012), to experience two huge failures (eliminations from the knockout stages of C1 in 2014 and 2015) , before making five seasons in the skin of the untouchable favorite (15 trophies won out of the 16 at stake over the period). How were Sarah Bouhaddi, Wendie Renard and Eugénie Le Sommer able to conquer seven Champions Leagues with the same rage under the Lyon jersey?

"We are often asked if we are not fed up with winning, smiled the first scorer in the final Eugenie Le Sommer, Sunday at the microphone of Canal +. No, look at our joy even today, there is no weariness. This joy may be different, but there is always a special flavor. "

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🙌 🇫🇷 Lyon lift their seventh #UWCL title! @Gatorade | #UWCLfinal pic.twitter.com/annkZMpUob

"They haven't finished writing history"

A "special flavor" which has transcended for ten years this Lyon group renewed by light touches, and used to coldly extinguish the desire for putsch of the 31 other teams in the final table of the European Cup. “We often say that a team will bring us down,” says Sarah Bouhaddi. This day is constantly postponed, to the point that Di Stefano's insane series of five consecutive C1 Real Madrid (from 1956 to 1960), has just been equaled by these Lyonnaises.

"My players wanted to write history, they started a few years ago and I think they have not finished writing it", summarizes Jean-Luc Vasseur, fourth French coach to have touched the European Grail thanks to this (almost) infallible winning machine.

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"When you sign in Lyon, you come to win everything"

“I can't imagine another women's team capable one day of accomplishing such a series,” slips the English side Lucy Bronze. "We said to ourselves that no one would catch up with us," confirms Sarah Bouhaddi. The international goalkeeper sums up with simplicity this culture of winning which is not the great strength of French sport: “When you sign in Lyon, you come to win everything”.

Icelandic midfielder Sara Björk Gunnarsdottir (29) has stumbled for four seasons against OL in the Champions League with Wolfsburg. She signed in Lyon during the interruption of football linked to Covid-19 and she has just won the first European Cup of her career, just like the ex-side of Montpellier Sakina Karchaoui. Less than two months after their arrival, these two recruits were among the best Lyonnaises in the semi and final.

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This contagious and addictive win pushes Wendie Renard to project himself, only a few minutes after lifting the 31st trophy of his career: “We have equaled this record but now we have to go for the sixth consecutive European Cup to beat it. I'm never full, you can count on me to be there next year ”.

Legend is written well in the feminine with the victory of Lyon!

And in the end ... France wins!
Well done to @ OLfeminin for their fifth consecutive European title!
Thank you for carrying our colors so high and for reminding us in the most beautiful way that France is a land of women's football.

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Such rare examples of consistency at the highest level in French sport could not escape a recovery on Sunday evening on social networks, from President Macron himself to the equipment supplier of OL Adidas. After all, this “ History makers  ” slogan  fits them like a glove, doesn't it?

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