His assistant Philippe Joly leaves the ship
The lieutenant and assistant of Corinne Deacon, Philippe Joly, left his post. According to information from RMC Sport, he would even have liked to leave this summer after the World Cup, a decision refused at the time by the coach of blue. The reasons: Joly wanted to go elsewhere and seemed worn out by the collaboration with the former player of ASJ Soyaux. His departure was announced recently in the form of a mutual agreement, after a last discussion in which the two technicians said things to each other.
The former goalkeeper coach under Bruno Bini (2007-2013) is therefore no longer part of the staff of the France team and should find a position at the National Technical Directorate. He became Corinne Deacon’s right hand when he took office in 2017. Contacted, the technician did not respond to our requests.
During the 2019 World Cup, he notably described during a press conference the exchanges with the patron saint of the Blue: “There are debates and discussions in the choices, we have a technical staff who masters football too. We a technical meeting every evening which allows us to talk about the choice of players, the animation. Of course after that it is the coach who makes her decision. It works like that and it is normal. ” To replace him, Eric Blahic would hold the rope (former assistant to Jocelyn Gourvennec in Guingamp and Bordeaux).
Since her post-World declarations on certain players like Eugénie Le Sommer, the human management of the coach annoys internally at the Federation. His credit has even decreased in recent weeks. Add a difficult recovery with its players last August, including a meeting with the group to put everything flat and informal discussions at the first gathering of the season.
A conciliation meeting with Wendie Renard and Noël Le Graët
At the beginning of December, Wendie Renard, defender of the France team, released her autobiography “My star”. Book in which the Olympique Lyonnais player returns in particular to the withdrawal of the captain’s armband by Corinne Diacre upon her arrival at the helm of the Bleues in autumn 2017 (note: Renard had been captain from 2013 to 2017) and their complicated human relationship. A book that was not very well received by the coach.
After this new episode of the conflictual relationship between the two protagonists of the Bleues, the president of the FFF, Noël Le Graêt, attached to the French women’s team and to the history of Wendie Renard among the Bleues, convened a meeting of conciliation this Tuesday, January 14 at the headquarters of the FFF. On one side of the table, Corinne Deacon, from the other Wendie Renard and her advisor. With the mediator, the president of the FFF.
According to our information, for almost an hour, the two women initially had a broken-off discussion, sometimes tense, where each remained in its positions, but which eventually subsided. Noël Le Graët asked them to make sure to “work together for the good and the future of the French team, without being friends”.
In view of the past few weeks, the French Tournament, the next installment for the French women’s team in early March, could have the value of a test for Corinne Diacre (international friendly tournament organized by the FFF where the Blue team will face Brazil, the Canada, and the Netherlands). Especially since the federation is putting a lot on the first edition of this tournament, the objective of which will be to once again highlight French women’s football and continue the craze for the World Cup.
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