Women's Euro 2025: France banks on mental training to overcome knockout-stage nerves
Before heading to Switzerland for the European Championship, the French players were once again confronted with this recurring theme. At both the World Cup and the Olympics, their campaigns ended at the quarter-final stage. This disappointing pattern has repeated itself seven times in the last eight major international tournaments since 2013 (Euros, World Cups and Olympic Games). Facing Germany on Saturday, July 18, in Basel, the French side has a chance to book their place in the final four – a stage they have reached only once in the past 12 years, at the 2022 tournament in England.
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