If the U.S. hates facing France, it’s with good reason: the World Cup hosts are the one team in world soccer built specifically to take down the Americans.
PARIS—The highest compliment anyone ever paid the French national team, as far as its captain is concerned, came in the heat of the moment from Abby Wambach.
At the conclusion of a bruising encounter several years ago between two of the strongest teams in women’s soccer, French defender Wendie Renard says, the U.S.’s greatest ever goal scorer told her that the Americans just hate playing against France. Those words have obsessed Renard for years.
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