Corinne Deacon has she just suffered the blow too much?

With Corinne Deacon at its head, the France team experienced a premature exit in its World Cup, in June 2019 at the Parc des Princes.

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• Corinne Deacon will be expected at the turn as never before, in particular by Noël Le Graët, when she unveils her next list of players on Thursday for an undecided France-Austria (November 27).

• Not selected at the last meeting, the usual captain of the Bleues Amandine Henry has indeed strongly criticized the coach on Sunday in an interview with Canal +.

• In view of his long track record with several Lyon executives (Wendie Renard and Sarah Bouhaddi in the lead), but also the reaction to the emergency of Noël Le Graët, the question of maintaining Corinne Deacon arises seriously.

After Wendie Renard, Sarah Bouhaddi and to a lesser degree Eugénie Le Sommer, Amandine Henry completed the list, Sunday at the

, of Lyon players publicly defeating Corinne Deacon.

With his status as captain and his mysterious absence from the last list of the Bleues, the OL midfielder managed to push Noël Le Graët to react urgently in

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"Amandine Henry has a large place in the France team, obviously," said the president of the French Football Federation.

Being in conflict with the best players in the France team is not sustainable.

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Because Noël Le Graët knows very well that there is frying between the now seven-time European champions and the coach of the Blue since taking office.

In September 2017, it had decided to withdraw the captain's armband from Wendie Renard, emblematic leader at OL, "so that she refocuses on her individual performances".

"It was a first strong gesture, she wanted to mark her territory, decrypts Tony Reale, in particular Lyonnaise agent Amel Majri [59 selections for the France team].

It immediately turned things upside down and she came up against the OL players.

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🗨️ Amandine Henry: "Now is the time to solve the problems, not in three years (...)" pic.twitter.com/s6Bm2OOIAK

- Canal Football Club (@CanalFootClub) November 15, 2020

"OL is a bit like the union of the French women's team"

Three years and a disappointing quarter-final of a World Cup at home later, the point of no return seems to be reached between champions of France without concessions since 2007 and a coach with icy management.

What push the nine players of the current Lyon workforce who have already rubbed shoulders with selection A to collectively organize a sling to precipitate the departure of Corinne Deacon?

“The great solidarity of the OL locker room is logical on this subject, especially when such a situation affects a manager like Amandine Henry, said Tony Reale.

OL is a bit like the union of the French women's team.

The unofficial exchange on the Corinne Deacon case, on October 13, between OL and Noël Le Graët, who came to reward them for their last coronation in the Champions League, goes fully in this direction.

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But despite the coach's regular disputes with Marie-Antoinette Katoto (PSG), Kheira Hamraoui (Barcelona) or Claire Lavogez (Girondins de Bordeaux), “the Lyon union” has not been joined by other players publicly criticizing the methods of Corinne Deacon, except Gaëtane Thiney (Paris FC).

What looks like an attempted putsch therefore remains 100% Lyon in appearance.

Through its leader Olivier Blanc, who immediately commented on the non-selection of Amandine Henry on the club's website on October 15, OL ensures that they are not pulling the strings.

We did not push Amandine to do this interview full of sincerity and sensitivity.

In October, we did not want to argue but just to express our incomprehension, recalling that the player was in good shape, contrary to what the coach said.

We are not going to have fun interfering in a situation that depends on the FFF.

We remain focused on the match at the Parc des Princes on Friday against PSG.

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"Noël Le Graët can no longer play an ostrich policy"

According to our information, Amandine Henry is indeed the only one at the initiative of this virulent interview for Canal +, and not the OL or its agent Sonia Souid.

The latter still wanted to put a little more pressure on the boss of the Fed, Monday with AFP: "The situation can not be worse.

Several important players have stepped up to the plate, he can no longer play ostrich politics ”.

Eugénie Le Sommer, Wendie Renard and Sarah Bouhaddi both share seven European coronations ... and a complex relationship with Corinne Deacon.

The Lyon goalkeeper has even withdrawn from the France team this summer for this reason.

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Four months before the election to the presidency of the FFF, for which he has not formalized his candidacy, what decision can Noël Le Graët take about this quagmire of unprecedented magnitude in a French selection?

"This conflict should be manageable," he said on Sunday with his usual placidity.

There will be several key timings with potential twists:

• Corinne Deacon will unveil her next list on Thursday, and it is hard to imagine Amandine Henry not being there again, given Noël Le Graët's update on the subject.

  If so, the situation promises to be even more electric for this rally.

• On November 27, the Blue will play in Guingamp a decisive match against Austria, first tied, in the qualifiers for the next Euro (postponed from 2021 to 2022 due to the Covid-19).

  And casually, not qualifying directly as the winner of his hen would stain and really weaken Corinne Deacon.

• If the Blue are preparing for a chain of madness Euro 2022, World Cup 2023, and Olympic Games 2024 in Paris, they will not have, for lack of qualifying for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the slightest final phase to play for 18 months.

  A rather distant deadline pushing to consider more after the Deacon than in the event of big competition in seven months, no?

“Aging” Lyonnaises?

Recognized agent in French women's football, Fabien Petit would not see such a change favorably.

“I am worried about Corinne Deacon's successor, if ever she has to be replaced earlier than expected, announces the former adviser to international striker Valérie Gauvin.

That would mean endorsing the players' empowerment, and that means the next coach will know very well that he will have to meet their expectations first if he wants it to work.

It would give an unstable situation from the start, with a staff obliged to deal with this data, under penalty of jumping in turn.

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Fabien Petit does not hesitate to titillate this generation which has won everything with OL, but which has systematically stumbled in the quarterfinals with the Blue for seven years: “The Lyonnaises are aging.

There is increasing European competition.

Barça arrives strong, Real will not be long, England is a dream for players and boys and the American League has revised its salary grid.

The Lyonnaises may not always be in a strong position ”.

His colleague Tony Reale does not share his point of view at all: “To dismiss Corinne Deacon now would actually agree with the girls of OL.

After all, would that be abnormal for a club that brings half of the players in the selection?

President Le Graët no longer has much choice, he must make a more radical decision than to organize new discussions between the players and a coach not ready to change his methods.

I think Jean-Michel Aulas is also expecting such a strong decision.

“At the same time, it was even harder on Monday to find a pro-Deacon Lyonnais than football players agreeing to answer us on this thorny issue.

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