Lucas Courtin, with Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin 9:26 p.m., February 26, 2023

A few days after her surprise statement announcing her withdrawal from Les Bleues, the captain of the French women's football team Wendie Renard justified herself at the microphone of "Europe 1 Sport".

Less than five months from the World Cup, the OL player has made the "hardest" decision of her career.

At 32, Wendie Renard knocked out an entire team.

The Martiniquaise and captain of the French football team announced her departure from Les Bleues as well as wanting to "take a step back" from the national team and not wanting to participate in the World Cup (July 20-August 20 in Australia and in New Zealand) under current conditions.

Reached by telephone in 

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, the latter explained that she had made "the hardest decision" of her career.

"It's a decision that was running through my head. It had already been taken for many months," justified the right defender.

A decision that led to other departures since the two attackers of the French women's team and Paris Saint-Germain Kadidiatou Diani and Marie-Antoinette Katoto also decided to withdraw from Les Bleues.

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