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“. This is how Pierre Jacky sums up 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», Says Kévin Ramirez, a major element of the selection, considered the first professional futsal player in France. “I think this is decisive for the short-term development of this sportHe 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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