Faced with the “Pauline, Pauline!” of the supporters, the goalkeeper of the Bleues did not hesitate. put on her FFP2 mask and walked towards the ten French supporters who were waiting outside the Ney York Stadium. Pauline Peyraud-Magnin had just faced the press, in the mixed zone, to come back to the victory and the qualification for the quarter-finals acquired against Belgium (2-1). As against Italy, she conceded a goal but did not have to make such a decisive parade this time. She is largely satisfied with the scenario of this first round. “Victory with qualification, I pay directly! “, she slips. She also talks about the next match against Iceland on Monday, in which she also intends to participate. “I want to play everything,” she said. It’s my role a little bit. »
For this first appearance in front of the French media since the arrival of Les Bleues in England, Pauline Peyraud-Magnin obviously said nothing about the personal drama which affected her on the sidelines of this Euro which she is waiting for so much and which she had confided to having “anxious” to start. We have indeed learned that his ex-companion, from whom she had separated a few weeks earlier, indeed died suddenly in Turin at the beginning of July. A situation that is necessarily difficult to live with for Pauline Peyraud-Magnin who, at the age of 30, is playing her first international competition as a starter with Les Bleues.
On the side of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, base camp of the French, nothing has filtered on the subject. The Federation told us that it “will not comment on this episode which belongs to the private life of a player”. It had also been the same at the time of the recent death of the father of Didier Deschamps, at the beginning of June, in full matches of the League of Nations. The echoes coming from the base camp of the tricolors report, about Peyraud-Magnin, of a young woman very touched and very surrounded.
So far, the Juventus Turin goalkeeper has responded perfectly to the confidence placed in her by Corinne Deacon. While Marie-Antoinette Katoto will miss Les Bleues in attack, her presence in goal will be an essential asset for the rest of the competition.