Hervé Renard's statement that ignites Morocco

The latest statements by Hervé Renard, the coach of the French women’s team, have not gone unnoticed in Morocco.

After announcing his departure at the helm of Les Bleues after the 2024 Paris Olympics, Hervé Renard spoke about his future ambitions. Present this Thursday at a press conference, the 55-year-old French technician expressed his goal to be in the men’s World Cup in 2026.

“I have the 2026 World Cup in mind”

“If I had to be brief, I have the men’s World Cup in mind in 2026, I hope that will be my third World Cup coaching to represent a maybe different country, or not, at the head of a men’s team. These are my personal motivations”, he developed. It’s hard not to see a nod to the countries already coached by Renard: Zambia, Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia and especially Morocco.

Hervé Renard: “What’s next? In the back of your mind is the 2026 men’s CDM! I hope this will be my third as a coach representing a country that may or may not be different. These are my personal motivations. »

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These comments obviously did not go unnoticed in the Cherifian Kingdom where coach Walid Regragui, although confirmed in his position at the beginning of February after the disillusionment at CAN 2023, burned a joker and arrives on his contract in June 2025. The Savoyard is already becoming a credible candidate for his possible inheritance next year. He whose profile is highly valued by Chrefians, as well as being very attached to the Kingdom – as he never misses an opportunity to remind us – to have
“spent four years there” as he recalled last August, shortly before the reunion in the round of 16 of the 2023 Women’s World Cup. After the victory against the Atlas Lionesses, the man in the white shirt did not hide his admission of having lived “a rather special evening”.

Rather Cameroon or Nigeria?

At the moment, no contact between the Moroccan Federation (FRMF) and the former coach of Zambia is on the agenda, reports the specialized account. Football212. In the event of a rapprochement, a battle is likely to break out with Ivory Coast who could return to the charge after attempting an unlikely loan move in the middle of CAN 2023, although Emerse Faé has currently inherited the keys to the truck and seems firmly installed after the miraculous the coronation on 11 February. So according to The teamhowever, the most concrete paths lead to Cameroon, Nigeria, South Korea and Poland, the country of his roots.