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In the shadow of football and world champions, French futsal wants to take off

2021-04-09T07:13:37.189Z


The French futsal team plays this Friday against Georgia a crucial match for its qualification for the Euro. Accessing the European Championship for the second time in a row would be a big boost to a booming discipline.


Two finals to qualify

”.

Here is how Pierre Jacky sums up in

Le Figaro

the task that awaits the French futsal team in the coming days.

The coach of the Blues does not hide his face, it will take a feat to reach the final phase of Euro 2022. Third in group 2 of the qualifiers, France faces this Friday Georgia, second, in Tbilisi for this first final where a defeat would instantly eliminate the Habs from the race for the European Championship.

"

A qualification for the Euro, we already knew it in 2018, and we saw the 'boom' that it had for the discipline

", affirms Kévin Ramirez to us, major element of the selection, considered as the first professional futsal player in France.

"

I think this is decisive for the short-term development of this sport,

”he continues.

24th nation in the world, the France team is on the upward slope while futsal is less anchored in the football culture of France than it can be in Brazil,

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Source: lefigaro

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