French team: “I didn’t want to offend anyone”, Renard looks back on his aborted freelance with the Ivory Coast. The Blue coach, who revealed his list for the League of Nations, spoke about the planned loan to Ivory Coast during the CAN.

The two French and Ivorian federations discussed this unprecedented loan at the beginning of January but did not reach an agreement for a “freelance” contract. At the end of his contract with the Blues after the Olympic Games, Hervé Renard remained unclear about his future.