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French team (F): Katoto back with the Blues after a year and a half of absence

The star striker of the French team Marie-Antoinette Katoto was recalled on Friday by coach Hervé Renard for the next two Nations League matches against Austria and Portugal, after almost a year and a half of absence.

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French team (F): Katoto back with the Blues after a year and a half of absence

The star striker of the French team Marie-Antoinette Katoto was recalled on Friday by coach Hervé Renard for the next two Nations League matches against Austria and Portugal, after almost a year and a half of absence.

Seriously injured in the right knee during the Euro in July 2022, the star player of Paris SG was forced to miss the 2023 World Cup in Australia, because she was not sufficiently recovered.

“It took her time (...), she still hasn't played a full match, we have to be patient with Marie. She is doing good things, she is capable of progressing, we are going to support her in the best way so that she can bring us all her qualities in the near future and they are numerous,” declared Hervé Renard on Friday, at a conference of press at the FFF.

Since his return in September with PSG after a blank season, Katoto has yet to play a full match but has scored twice in nine appearances, including last weekend in D1 against Fleury. But Thursday evening at the Jean-Bouin stadium, it did not completely shine in the eyes of Renard during the Champions League shock lost by PSG against Bayern Munich (1-0) - the second defeat in a row for his club in two days of C1.

Top scorer in D1 in 2019 (22 goals), 2020 (16) and 2022 (18), Katoto was also named best player in the French championship in 2022 before getting injured. In 2021, she won PSG's first and only national title.

For the two matches, against Austria at Roazhon Park in Rennes on December 1 and in Portugal on December 5, Hervé Renard must do without Real Madrid midfielder Sandie Toletti, injured in the humerus, but also Sandy Baltimore, the PSG striker, and goalkeeper Constance Picaud, whom he named N.1 goalkeeper in place of Pauline Peyraud-Magnin since the World Cup.

Bleues and Angel City FC midfielder Amandine Henry, who signed for Losc during the American championship break, was summoned again by Hervé Renard, who likes to rely on his executives, like the Northerner (34 years old, 97 selections), Eugénie Le Sommer (34 years old, 187 caps) or Wendie Renard (33 years old, 154 caps).

Furthermore, he recalled Eve Perisset, who did not have enough playing time with Chelsea, and Kenza Dali, injured since the World Cup.

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