Generally speaking, when a country achieves good results in football, its football association management model is often learned by other countries. The case of French football is the opposite.
The French national team won the championship in the 2018 World Cup and won the runner-up in the 2022 World Cup. At the same time, French football is full of talents, and women's football has also made great progress.
However, there have been a series of scandals at the management level of the French Football Association. Basically, scandals and controversies have completely offset the space for summing up excellent experience. Le Graet, the former president of the French Football Association who was dismissed this year due to a sexual harassment scandal, has far more problems than sexual harassment. The problem of the French National Youth has also surfaced recently.
The French government is very concerned about the country's good results in ball games in the Paris Olympics. It has long been rumored that Mbappe and Griezmann will join the Olympic men's football team as overage players.
Therefore, who will coach the French Olympic men's football team has become an important issue. According to the past practice of U21 national youth coaching Olympic men's football, it should be Ripoll who has coached national youth for 6 years. But Ripoll's ability is really difficult to reassure. The French Olympic men's football team he coached lost 0 to 4 to Japan in the Tokyo Olympics. This is an important record of disastrous defeat.
Now the French Football Association must choose a convincing person as the Olympic coach. At present, the loudest voice in CAB주소 is former Rennes and Strasbourg coach Julian Stefan. Julian Stefan is a convincing coach in terms of ability. He set the best record in the history of the European team in Rennes (the Europa League entered the knockout round and entered the Champions League), and brought out young players such as Camavinga , also created success in Strasbourg. At the same time, his father is the assistant coach of Deschamps' coaching staff. It is easier than other coaches to establish a talent delivery and coordination mechanism with the national team's first team.
Therefore, this week the French Football Association finally made a decision to dismiss Ripoll as head coach. This is also an important measure to liquidate the legacy of former chairman Le Graet. Ripoll is a native of Brittany. He played in Ligue 2 for a long time as a player, and then entered the coaching staff of the godfather of Breton football, Gourcuff, and then coached the underdog Lorient in Brittany. He was fired after a dismal start to the season.
Such a coach with little experience was appointed as the coach of the French U21 national youth just because he was from Brittany, which was also a surprising thing at the time. Then someone in the media made it known that Ripoll's way of cultivating talents is very popular with the national team coach Didier Deschamps. In other words, this fellow was not decided by Le Graai, but by Deschamps from another region.
Ripoll's record in the French U21 National Youth Team is really not flattering. The first time he led the team to participate in the U21 European Youth Championship was in 2019. The French national youth reached the semi-finals, but was swept by the Spanish national youth 4-1. After the game, Ripoll used the schedule as a reason to shirk. He said that the French team had 48 hours less rest, but he refused to comment on the huge technical and tactical advantages of the Spanish national youth.
In the next 2021 and 2023 European Youth Championships, the French team lost to the Netherlands and Ukraine in the quarter-finals respectively. Although French football has always had a tradition of ignoring the U21 European Youth Championship, and the club has a lot of competition with the Football Association on the issue of releasing players, the French football circle does not want to be eliminated every European Youth Championship. Victory is the key to cultivating talents. However, Ripoll's command in key games is always "admirable". The Olympic Games lost 0 to 4 to Japan. Although this is a lineup with a strong sense of patchwork, the team's mental outlook is really bad enough.
So, does the French football community still trust the coach of the national youth team who has lost consecutive games to lead the team to the Paris Olympics? Can he convince Mbappé and Griezmann? What is more favorable is that Diallo (former vice-chairman of the French Football Association), who was originally the transitional chairman, has successfully become a full-time member in the election in June. Ball's dismissal decision.
Nor was Ripoll the only Breton to be brought to the French Football Federation by Le Graet for a salary. At the staff level, there are still many people brought by Le Graet from his hometown. One of the important reasons why Le Graet can carry out sexual harassment blatantly is that he feels that he has nothing to fear and no one can bring him down. Nepotism is also a very public behavior, and the arrangement of throwing Ripoll's blame to Deschamps is also very clever.
Now the French Football Association must choose a convincing person as the Olympic coach. At present, the loudest voice in CAB주소 is former Rennes and Strasbourg coach Julian Stefan. Julian Stefan is a convincing coach in terms of ability. He set the best record in the history of the European team in Rennes (the Europa League entered the knockout round and entered the Champions League), and brought out young players such as Camavinga , also created success in Strasbourg. At the same time, his father is the assistant coach of Deschamps' coaching staff. It is easier than other coaches to establish a talent delivery and coordination mechanism with the national team's first team.
