Nearly 10,000 km separate them.
But, on this Wednesday afternoon, Melvine Malard, the striker of Les Bleues (16 selections, 5 goals), and Daniel Coukan, the coach who discovered her in Saint-Denis de La Réunion, have never been so close. .
In the base camp press room where France is preparing for its quarter-final against the Netherlands on Saturday (9 p.m., TF1, Canal +), Malard, who brilliantly replaced Marie-Antoinette Katoto against Iceland with a goal after 43 seconds of play, looks back on the decision that changed his life: “I left Reunion at 14 and for me it was a great sacrifice.
I always said to myself:
I have a dream, I have goals, I'm going for
it .
And today it paid off.
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