2023-12-02 09:13:19
The French under-17 football team (U17) will play the World Cup final in its age category on Saturday December 2 in Indonesia at 1 p.m., live on the L’Équipe channel. against Germany, after eliminating Mali in the semi-final on Tuesday (2-1).
► Footballers for a double
This is the second time that French footballers have reached this level of competition at the Under-17 World Cup after 2001, the year when the Bleuets at the time were crowned world champions. The French U17s were also European vice-champions in 2023 and European champions in 2022.
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French football, which has accumulated titles among young people, continues to benefit from the quality of its detection and training system. The same recipes can explain the successes achieved this year in other team sports among juniors or cadets.
► In rugby, unchallenged reign
Where Antoine Dupont’s Blues failed in October, the French succession succeeded in July. The French under-20 team crushed Ireland in the final of its World Cup (54-10), winning its third consecutive title after those of 2018 and 2019. In the meantime, Covid had led to the cancellation of the competition.
Some of these young fifteen players could soon join the “big ones”, some already playing in professional teams in the Top 14. We can also see in the victories of the under 20s the benefits of the Jiff rule (players from training sectors) in the championship, which requires French clubs to include a quota of locally trained talent on the match sheets.
The French women’s under-18 team also crushed their rivals this year by achieving the grand slam in the Six Nations Tournament.
► In basketball, the top of the basket
Under the baskets, the young French also dominate the competition. In August, the French women’s under-16 team became European champions. The French cadets imitated their elders in the under-20s, who also won the European Championship, while the under-18s were finalists in their Euro.
Same collection of medals for boys this summer, with gold for the under-20s at the European Championship, silver for the under-19s at the World Cup and bronze for the under-16s at the Euro. And prodigy Victor Wembanyama, 19, is already expected to become one of the leaders of the Blues at the Paris Olympics.
Here too, the French Basketball Federation is reaping the results of a policy geared towards training, notably with the France center installed at Insep in Paris.
► Volleyball is no longer left behind
Crowned Olympic champions in Tokyo in 2021 after being European champions in 2015, French volleyball players have never been world champions. The young Blues made up for this gap in August by beating Iran (3 sets to 1) in the final of the under-19 world championship.
Les Bleuets also won the European Youth Olympic Festival this summer. A year earlier, in 2022, they had been European vice-champions in the under-18 category.
► Handball, a summer slump
France has become a dominant nation in handball and the French youth teams have often followed in the victorious footsteps of the seniors, whose women’s and men’s teams are reigning Olympic champions. But only the French women’s under-18 team shone this summer by winning the European Championship.
Double world champions (in 2015 and 2019), the under-21s were eliminated before the quarter-finals at the 2023 World Cup. The under-19s failed to qualify for their world championship . Among the girls, the under-19s, European champions in 2017 and bronze medalists in 2021, finished in 6th place in Europe.
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