Soccer. The Blues have the World Cup in the back of their minds

Laurent Bonadei assures us: 2026 is the year of the anniversary of rest for the French women’s team which, for the first time in 2021, is participating in the major competition (Olympics, World Cup or Euro) listed on the calendar in two weeks. However, the Blues will not have the leisure to relax either, since they launch the qualifying campaign for the 2027 World Cup this Tuesday (7:30 p.m.) with a relocation to Ireland.

“On this day of preparation for 2027. It’s a work anniversary”, this time the vice-captain of this team Grace Geyoro, more or less repeating the words of her coach. With the matches on the race program (after the placement in Ireland, the French presented Poland on Saturday in Dijon), Bonadei is counting on the next meetings to “finish [son] group », even if he assures that he already has « a basis » for the next World Cup.

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This time, the techniques will have to do without three of its executives (Griedge Mbock, Delphine Cascarino and Selma Bacha, injured). But despite these absences, the aim of the start of the year is also to strengthen links within the squad, with the help of mental trainer Thomas Sammut.

“One day, it will smile on us”

When the year 2025 arrives, the field being finished (elimination in the quarter-final of the Euro then in the semi-final of the Nations League), Geyoro is content to “create a high-value group”. “There, upon availability need to meet again! We still have so much fun being in the French team. We just have to wait, be patient, work and then one day, it will smile on us, I am convinced,” insists the London City Lionesses player.

The program is based on the game, which is in the circuits of passes, pressures and pressures, ultimately. This match against an Irish team which has a historic history in France (33 goals scored in 13 matches, it is therefore the best ratio of the selection against a nation faced more than 10 times according to Opta statistics) and will already say more about the lessons learned by the Blues in recent months. Laurent Bonadei’s children also had the opportunity to wear their clothes, but they were still defeated (3-1 in July 2024 as part of qualifying for Euro-2025).

Eyes may already be on Brazil, but this team has its work cut out for it if it wants to make life easier in the coming months. “We want to do the job until June (date of the last qualifying window), and then after that, cut it off,” says Grace Geyoro. With this in mind, bringing back anything other than a victory from this first trip of the year would be a failure for the Blues.