Wendie Renard
Wendie Renard (born July 20, 1990 in Schœlcher , Martinique ) is a French football player .
Club career
The defender made her debut at the age of seven at L'Essor Préchotin and then played (2005/06) at Rapid Club Le Lorrain , two clubs in her native country. In 2006, Farid Benstiti , then the coach of the Olympique Lyon's women's team , brought Wendie Renard to the club's youth center and at the end of the same season already used the 16-year-old in two league games . Three months later, she was appointed to the A youth national team for the first time. Since the 2007/08 season she has been part of the Lyon team and has been involved in all of the club's titles: in France, 14 championship titles in a row and eight cup wins so far . Furthermore, she has won the Champions League seven times and is one of three orienteering players who have succeeded. In May 2011, Wendie Renard, who was 1.85 meters tall, was also in the starting line-up when Olympique won the Champions League final against Turbine Potsdam . The defender scored the early opening goal to make it 1-0 (final score 2-0). She was also involved in defending the trophy in the Munich Olympic Stadium in 2012 (2-0 against 1. FFC Frankfurt ) and in winning the title again in 2016 (victory over VfL Wolfsburg ) right from the start.
In the national team
With the French U-19 selection, she took part in the 2008 European Championship for this age group, as well as in the U-20 World Championship in Chile in the same year . In March 2011, national coach Bruno Bini appointed her to the French senior team for the first time for the tournament in Cyprus (first game: against Switzerland ), for which she has played 120 games since then. She was accepted into the " Hundred Club " on the occasion of a friendly against Nigeria in April 2018. Her first goal in this circle was in November 2011 - and that in Martinique, of all places, where she scored 5-0 against Mexico ; She has now scored 24 goals, including two headers in the opening game of the 2019 World Cup against South Korea (as of March 7, 2020). Wendie Renard was also used for the French squad at the 2011 Women's World Cup in three games, where the team finished fourth. She was part of the French Olympic squad in 2012 and played all six Bleues games at this tournament . Coach Bini also called her to his EM squad in 2013 ; in Sweden she was on the field from the first to the last minute of the game in all four games.
Bini's successor Philippe Bergeroo made the just 23-year-old in September 2013, succeeding the resigned Sandrine Soubeyrand, as the new captain of the French women's team, in which she was also one of the Bleues' most successful goal scorers in the 2013/14 season . She was part of the squad for the 2015 World Cup , in which she was on the artificial turf in all five matches over the full season, and was also part of the French squad at the 2016 Olympic soccer tournament , the European championship squad in 2017 and the French 23-man squad for the World Cup in 2019 Country . When a new national coach, Corinne Diacre, was named in September 2017, Renard's role as captain of the Bleues ended - a decision with which she was generally dissatisfied, as her autobiography, published at the end of 2019, shows. About their rift there was even a discussion between the two women, moderated by association president Noël Le Graët in January 2020 .
Wendie Renard was not France's first dark-skinned international - this label has been due to Marie-Françoise Sidibé, who is very similar in stature and player type, since the late 1970s .
successes
National team
- World Championship participant: 2011, 2015, 2019
- European Championship participant: 2013, 2017
- Olympic participant: 2012, 2016
societies
- French soccer champion: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- French cup winner: 2008 (not used in the final), 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
- Champions League winner: 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Awards
- Elected to the All-Star-Team of the EM 2013
- Inclusion in the 2015 world selection
Web links
- Datasheet on the website of the French Association
Supporting documents and comments
- ↑ Article "Wendie Renard, the high-flyer" on the association's website
- ↑ See for example this article from May 26, 2011 in Der Standard ; there is also a corresponding photo.
- ↑ Wendie Renard: “I'm not afraid” at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ Wendie Renard: Mon Étoile. Talent Sport, Paris 2019, ISBN 978-2-3781-5124-9
- ↑ Article “ There is no longer a problem between Corinne Diacre and Wendie Renard ” from January 19, 2020 at leparisien.fr
- ↑ fr-online.de: "Anja Mittag and Celia Sasic in the 2015 soccer world selection"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renard, Wendie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schœlcher , Martinique |