World Cup 2022: Blues yearn to enter New Zealand dance
D-2. The countdown has begun for France’s players who will start the World Cup finals in New Zealand on Saturday morning (3:15 a.m. French time) against South Africa, at Eden Park in Auckland, in the competition’s opening match.
“We are all very excited to get started. Opening Ceremony (Editor’s note: Who was Monday) It made us enter the competition in concrete terms,” admits Gabrielle Vernier, three-quarters of the Blagnac Center.
32 Bleues have been collected since the beginning of summer, and they have finally reached their goal. “In a few training sessions, we feel the girls have taken the right measure for the event,” David Ortiz, French Women’s Assistant Coach supports. The girls addressed it quite a bit in terms of intensity, application, and engagement during the sessions.”
Tensions are rising even more because this World Cup was so desired. “For some of us, we’ve been preparing for it for four years now and working hard to be there. We now want to be able to show everything we’ve worked on in matches all these weeks,” explains Gabriel Werner.
“We feel physically ready even if we had one last complicated match against Italy (26-19 defeat on 9 September in Italy) which was a booster shot,” adds Pauline Bourdon of the Half Ball in Toulouse.
“Playing at Eden Park is unbelievable”
Even if they are in their hotel bubble, French women are beginning to feel the trembling enthusiasm in the All Black country where rugby or rugby is a true religion.
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“That’s crazy. Here, there’s rugby almost 24 hours a day on TV,” exclaims Aswa Khalfaoui, the Bordeaux column witnessing its first World Cup.
On Saturday, the first matches will be held in Auckland (in the evening the All-Blacks Australia will face almost 30,000 spectators in Eden Park).
“Playing the opening match in this legendary stadium is an incredible thing. It makes you want to do more,” rejoices Aswa Khalfaoui, who also concludes with impatience.
Didier Croce
blue program
South Africa and France. Saturday at 3:15 a.m. (2:15 p.m. local time), at Eden Park in Auckland
France and England. Saturday, October 15 at 9 a.m. (8 p.m. local time) at the Northland Events Center in Whangarei.
France – Fiji. Saturday October 22 at 8:15 a.m. (7:15 p.m. local time) at Northland Events Center, Whangarei.
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