Women's Euro 2025: France's team will be all-out Blue

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Despite the setbacks of the World Cup and the Olympic Games, the French team approaches its first match, Saturday, July 5 against England in Zurich, with the hope of breaking through the glass ceiling and pushing for greater professionalism.

The French national team trains in Staad, Switzerland, on July 1, 2025. (Gian Ehrenzeller/AP)

by Margot Sanhes , Marie Thimonnier and Romain Métairie

Undefeated in 2025, but outsiders in the competition. Les Bleues approach the Euro in Switzerland burdened by a paradox. With eight wins in eight matches this year, the "rating of the French team is rising," said coach Laurent Bonadei last weekend, satisfied with convincing performances, including the last, most symbolic, victory 3-2 against the Brazilians who had lost their lives at the Paris Olympics.

There is no question of getting carried away with it: the French women, still in search of their first title, are still in a phase of remission, marked by a shower of collective disappointments in recent years, including two premature exits in the quarter-finals of the 2023 World Cup and the 2024 Olympic Games, while they were coming in as favorites. Laurent Bonadei was then the right-hand man of coach Hervé Renard . By taking over the reins of the selection, he has initiated a new cycle. With strong choices:

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