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The Champions League title that Lyon won yesterday (30) over Wolfsburg, by the score of 3 to 1, not only marked another point in the hegemony of the club, which won the continental competition for the seventh time, but also served to highlight three players in particular. Sarah Bouhaddi, Eugene LeSommer and Wendie Renard were present at all the achievements of the French team and thus became record holders of Champions League titles.
Previously, the holder of the greatest number of achievements in the main European tournament was the Spaniard Paco Gento, who won the Champions League six times with Real Madrid in the middle of the last century. Now, the three French women are the athletes who, regardless of gender, reached the top of the podium.
Players
Wendie Renard is the world’s leading advocate. At 1.87, a powerful aerial ball and above-average tactical intelligence, Renard has played for Lyon since the beginning of her playing career. It was her goal in the semifinal against rival PSG that qualified Lyon for the fifth consecutive final. In addition to being a security guard behind, she is a threat in the attack, being almost unstoppable thanks to her height and ease of positioning.
The defender is the captain of France and was in the top 11 of FIFA for her performance during the 2019 World Cup. Furthermore, according to “FourFourTwo”, Renard is one of the five highest paid players on the planet.
Eugénie Le Sommer emerged 10 years ago as one of the most promising forwards on the international women’s football scene. She was highlighted by all the basic teams in France and in the 2008 U-20 World Cup in Chile she won the Bronze Ball, being elected the third best player of that championship. Already outstanding, it wasn’t long before she was called up to the main team and, at just 19, made her debut.
Acting as a more open or central forward, Eugenia has always been a player capable of delivering many goals for both Lyon and her team. In the last rounds of the Champions League, however, she ended up losing position to England’s Nikita Parris. Due to fate, Parris was sent off in the semi-finals, so Le Sommer started the big decision and scored Lyon’s first goal.
Finally, goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi is far from unanimous for anyone who follows the sport. Insecure and, at times, nervous, the Frenchwoman has been highly questioned by the Lyon fans and almost moved during the pause by the pandemic. She even posted a farewell to the club on her Twitter, which ended up not happening.
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