France?s Sakina Karchaoui: ?If everyone brings their own little madness, it will make

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Sakina Karchaoui is one of the most popular players in the France team. Perhaps the most popular. But when she joins us at 9am at Clairefontaine, the national centre of French football, Les Bleues? No 7 appears quite shy. Wearing a blue tracksuit emblazoned with the French rooster, she smiles for the first time when Kenza Dali teases her: ?Interview for the Guardian ? in English please, Saki!?
Spring has finally sprung in the French capital and for the native of Salon-de-Provence, in southern France, the prospect of training in the sunshine is another reason to smile. ?We are almost ready for the Euros,? Karchaoui says as she looks at the training ground below. ?We work a lot tactically with the coach, we work technically, physically, all aspects of football. I think we can win many things together; we?ve got so much talent. And if everyone brings their own little madness, their own experience and their own qualities to the group, that?s what will make us win.?
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