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Romain HOUEIX

Women’s football cries foul at French TV’s ‘lousy’ reporting and indifference

France star Wendie Renard says the country has failed to build on the success of the women's World Cup hosted in 2019. © Olivier Chassignole, AFP

Fans of women’s top football league in France are up in arms at the substandard coverage offered by French television, which they say is symptomatic of broader neglect of the sport in a country that was long a powerhouse of the women’s game in Europe but is now falling behind.

Footballers playing for the world’s richest club could be forgiven for expecting state-of-the-art facilities and maximum exposure – unless they are women. 

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