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The captain of the French women's team, Amandine Henry, and her team had to leave the national training center to allow the men to prepare for a friendly match.
OPINION: The Women's World Cup is supposed to be the game changer, a tournament to welcome new fans by the millions and a showcase of progress made over the past four years. But alas, six days before the coup in Paris, this progress seems to be sorely lacking, after the host country was offended this week by its own federation.
On Wednesday, nine days before the opening of the tournament against South Korea, the France team was rushed out of its training base in Clairefontaine to make room for the team men, who will play a friendly against Bolivia on Sunday (local time).
This blatant relegation suggests that the comfort of Kylian Mbappe and Paul Pogba before a friendly match, the preparation of a qualifier for the Euro 2020 next week, is more important than the continuity for women before the World Cup. World – and their own final warm-up final friendly night.
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Ada Hegerberg refuses to play for his Norwegian national team due to lack of respect for the women's match.
With the most famous team in the history of the Women's World Cup, the United States, in legal conflict with their federation on gender discrimination, including equal pay, it is not secret that much remains to be done in the form of tangible parity.
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This episode addresses an element of the debate that exceeds wages. Just watch the announcement video of the German team playing badly, being offered a tea service after winning its first title of European champion, the trolling badist public and the fact that they represent " a nation that does not even know our names "".
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Hegerberg was not impressed when French DJ Martin Solveig asked him to "twerk" at the Ballon d'Or award ceremony last year.
This plays out in the highly publicized boycott of the World Cup by Ada Hegerberg. The 2018 Gold Ball, four-time winner of the Champions League, has no longer played for its national team, Norway, since 2017 due to a "lack of respect" described by his federation to the women's team – despite the fact that both senior teams receive equal pay.
"This is not always a money issue – it's a matter of attitude and respect," said Hegerberg, 23, at the BBC last month.
"I think sometimes we have to go out and think – we are going as fast as we should be, are we doing things right, are we all saying that?"
The promotion by French social media of the "historic" dinner of their senior teams in Clairefontaine Wednesday is the "conversation". The case of the men's coach, Didier Deschamps, claiming that there was "no debate" on moving women to the center of the process, was at the heart of the question.
Yesterday, Phil Neville described the Lionesses sharing St George's Park with the senior men and under-21s of England last week, training in the same gym and on courts side by side. "Do you know what Gareth [Southgate] and Aidy [Boothroyd] I said? It's more important that women get the best of everything, "said Neville.
They should not have the impression of being of service to women by occupying the premises of the national team, but France has managed to do so. This snub is quite familiar and proves the point of view of the most striking absentee of the World Cup.
The test is to determine if France will exchange this lack of respect by organizing a tournament that will really change the perceptions, maybe even those of Deschamps.
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