Caroline Drouin narrates the week after missing a penalty against New Zealand

The composer of a superb performance on Saturday against Canada in the Women’s Rugby World Cup ‘mini-final’ (36-0), Blues player Caroline Drouin returned for the missed penalty against New Zealand in the semi-finals. The week after disappointment.

This moment will forever be remembered by Caroline Drouin. Last Saturday, in the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand, the opening game of the 15th match for France carried the heavy burden of writing the penalty kick to win in the 80th minute, while the Blues lead 25-24. He could give his feet the first World Cup final in France’s history. But his attempt was unsuccessful. And you can guess that the days after this defeat were complicated for Stade Rennais…

“The group helped me a lot”

It’s been a rough start to the week, not just for Darwin, but for the whole group. As a result, employees have given the Les Bleues team two days off, Sunday and Monday in this case, before resuming training. “The group has helped me tremendously, I’ve received so many messages of support,” says Caroline Drouin of her start to the week.

“When you’re competitive and you miss a penalty in the last minute of a semi-final, it’s necessarily difficult, go on with the opening match. It’s not something I can forget. I wanted to show, that despite not being a big player the champion I wanted last week, I knew How do I dance.” It was a very good performance against the Canadians on Saturday in the match for third place (36-0).

Retry penalty during the captain’s race

In the mixed zone after the mini-final, the No. 10 seed is smiling and, with good reason, prefers to be positive: “It’s not necessarily going to haunt me. But it’s part of building my career. It’s a real game. Sometimes they’re positive, there, that wasn’t the case.” It will make me grow because I will do everything to not live like this scenario again.”

She even has a little story left about this lost punishment and how she overcame it. “We came for the captain’s tour on Friday on the pitch and I was keen to re-enter the same penalty in the same place.” This time she wore it. “Paulin (Bordon) is running and screaming all over the place because I passed her screaming everywhere on the court ‘We’re in the final,'” says Drouin. The way of joking about this unfortunate episode.