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Going through opposition from a number of gamers amid stories she could possibly be changed earlier than the Ladies’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, France coach Corinne Diacre says she is the sufferer of a smear marketing campaign.
In a press release from her lawyer, Deacre stated she has been shocked by the “violence” and “dishonesty” of what she perceives as an try to destabilize her.
Final month, France captain Wendie Renard stated she is going to skip this 12 months’s Ladies’s World Cup as a result of she is sad with the group’s arrange.
Following Renard’s determination, striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto and ahead Kadidiatou Diani additionally introduced they have been placing their worldwide careers on maintain.
Renard didn’t go additional into element, however there have been sturdy tensions within the France squad for years between the gamers and Diacre.
Diani stated she would return to the nationwide group provided that vital adjustments are made.
However Deacon stated she is set to stay in cost and to “convey honor to France throughout the subsequent World Cup”.
“I endured, not with out nice struggling, the show of slander, untruths and ambitions of some and others,” Deacon stated.
The Ladies’s World Cup is scheduled to be performed from July 20 to August 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
After taking cost in 2017, Deacre stripped Renard of the captain’s armband then gave it again to her in 2021.
“My detractors haven’t hesitated to assault my private {and professional} integrity with out bothering with the reality,” Deacre stated.
“I cannot let myself be affected by this destabilization operation, which doesn’t consider my sporting file, and whose solely goal is a private settling of scores.”
In accordance with stories within the French press, Diacre’s future with the group could possibly be selected Thursday throughout a gathering on the nation’s soccer federation.
Deacon stated she has been heard by a fee from the federation and thanked its members for permitting her “to dispel the lies that have been asserted with out contradiction”.
She additionally thanked Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas, who beforehand urged the federation’s government committee to hearken to the gamers.
Aulas is a member of the committee.
Deacon stated Aulas assured her that he was “prepared to return on his public remarks by contemplating the scenario with objectivity and impartiality”.
“In view of the shameful media outburst of the previous couple of days, I however want to reaffirm publicly what I advised the fee,” Deacre stated.
“That I’m totally dedicated to hold out my mission and, above all, to do France proud throughout the subsequent World Cup.”
