The French team’s star attacker seriously injured in the knee during the match against Belgium Thursday, July 14.
Le Monde with AFP
The images of the injury outing of Marie-Antoinette Katoto on Thursday, July 14, left little hope of seeing the French team attacker replayed before the end of the Euro. It is now official: the French football team attacker is forfeited for the rest of the tournament. Medical examinations have revealed that the French player suffers from a rupture of the ligament prior to the right knee and her meniscus is cracked.
At the post-match conference, the selector, Corinne Diacre, had mentioned a “sprain”, without being able to specify the seriousness of the injury and the duration of unavailability. Number 9 was forced to go out after a quarter of an hour against Belgium, injured in the right knee in the absence of any contact with an opponent.
taking care not to set foot on the ground, she was examined by the blue doctor and then joined the gallery on crutches after half time. She had been touched at this same knee during the watchful training training, after a shock with a teammate.
“Mak” is the star-center center of the French team, qualified for the quarter-finals scheduled for July 23 even before the last match of the first round against Iceland on Monday. At 23, the Paris SG player was presented as one of the headliners of the English euro, expectations in particular linked to her efficiency this season: her total personal amounts to 48 goals, including 16 with the selection after 15 matches.