Squad strife and a lack of team ethic have left a talented nation laden with doubt as they hunt a first major trophy
?I want people to stop asking me: ?Why haven?t France won anything when you?re one of the best teams in the world??? Marie-Antoinette Katoto, like all her teammates, has only one dream this summer: to win the Euros.
To do that, though, they have to come to terms with a history of tournament failures with the most recent one coming at the home Olympics last year, when they were knocked out by Brazil at the quarter-final stage. ?We have had opportunities and twice failed to win it at home in France. We have to have the humility to admit that,? admits Sakina Karchaoui, one of the team?s vice-captains, referring also to the 2019 World Cup on home soil, when they lost to the USA in the quarter-finals.
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