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Women's D1: Issy is… Paris

2020-11-13T11:44:45.429Z


The Hauts-de-Seine formation faces PSG this Saturday afternoon in the league. The opportunity for many ex of the club of the capital of


It is not only because their meeting against PSG (this Saturday, 4:30 p.m., at Clairefontaine) will be broadcast live on Canal + Sport that the Chouettes of GPSO 92 Issy will be motivated.

Many of them will indeed be carried by the mere fact of finding a club in which they grew up.

Seven players in the squad have worn the colors of PSG at one point or another in their careers, left side Nonna Debonne in the lead, she who spent ten years there and wore the jersey 187 times until her departure in 2014 In the stands also, the president Christine Aubère and the sports director Alexandre Barbier will take a special look at their opponent of the day.

The first began her career there in D1, at the age of 15, in 1985, before leaving in 2002. The second, rubbed shoulders on the field with the generation of Abriel, Paisley, Ducrocq, aged 9 and 19.

The Altoséquanais club, which owes the third accession in the elite in its recent history after those of 2012 and 2014, to its excellent run in D2 last season, does not make the meeting against Paris a gala match.

The objective of the GPSO 92, currently tenth, remains the maintenance.

For this, he intends to ride on the momentum given by his first two successes of the season, against Bordeaux (3-1) then at Soyaux (1-0) on the last day.

But facing PSG can not really be a date like any other for a club with so many former Parisians.

An assumed presence.

“The idea for us is to be the springboard for clubs like PSG.

Either to allow young players to bounce back.

Either so that players at the end of their careers like Nonna Debonne or Ella Kaabachi, become the elite of our region, ”underlines Christine Aubère, who started playing football at 12 in Paris.

As for the meeting against Paris, she sees it as "a pride to reach this level and the culmination of long years of work".

And, personally, as a former Parisian, she recognizes that "it's always a bit of emotion" but that she will be "an Owl" this Saturday.

📸 [WOMEN] After a first success conquered two weeks ago in D1 Women against @girondins, the @FFIssy did it again last weekend by obtaining a new victory against a direct competitor for maintenance in order to continue to rise to the ranking pic.twitter.com/Tsa9824dPV

- Paris Ile-de-France Football League (@ LPIFF75) November 5, 2020

This idea of ​​a “springboard” to explain the large number of ex-Parisiennes also comes up in Alexandre Barbier's speech.

"Issy gives the opportunity to young players who want playing time to evolve at the highest level," explains the new sports director of the club.

And it is true that for that the geographical proximity with the PSG is an asset.

The catwalk is done naturally and the idea is that it is perpetuated.

But it's the same with Paris FC or clubs with a higher budget, such as Lyon and a bloated workforce where places are expensive.

We say to young players: We, Issy, we exist, we are there, we can give you playing time to allow you to get seasoned.

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Facing PSG, Nonna Debonne has already done it once.

It was in 2014, just after his arrival in Issy.

The defender even remembers throwing "Go Blue!"

"By mistake at the time of encouraging his new partners, all dressed in red ..." Even on the first touches, I wondered why the Blue did not stand out.

I didn't know who to give the ball to!

She recalls, laughing.

This Saturday, no question of having the slightest doubt.

Facing Paris, the club of which she was a younger fan, is also an opportunity for her to discuss the evolution of the club in the capital marked by the arrival of Qatar.

She is not jealous of what the Parisiennes are winning today, but she has not necessarily lived well her last two seasons in the jersey of PSG.

“French women were too expensive for them,” she recalls.

We brought in foreigners younger than me.

And since they had been made to leave their country, they had to be made to play at all costs.

As a result, some played injured and I stayed on the bench.

The pleasure, the taste for effort are gone.

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Clairefontaine, Pierre Pibarot field: next Saturday at 4.30 p.m., @equipedefrance of Didier Deschamps will leave it to the Chouettes 🦉 of # GPSO92Issy who will welcome @PSG_Feminines ... @ D1Arkema


RDV live on @CanalplusSport


Tx @GPSO_SeineOuest.Issdylesitterfrench .com / U6pkHtFZd8

- GPSO 92 Issy (@FFIssy) November 10, 2020

Happy at Issy, she also emphasizes the role of springboard for her new club “before starting a great career”, or of welcoming land for those who, like her, “still want to enjoy”.

On the strength of her experience, she nevertheless draws a bitter observation: “The youngest people really need to be framed.

Some, at 18 or 19, arrive as stars from PSG or elsewhere and think that everything is acquired ”.

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In the changing rooms of Clairefontaine, this Saturday, where she had heard in 2002 her first trainers explain that she and her teammates had to be "irreproachable" to give a good image of women's football, Nonna Debonne will address his turn to his partners.

She will tell them that they are "not beaten in advance", even against Paris.

It will also remind you to watch out for injuries.

“Because the match that really matters is the next one against Guingamp,” she remarks, thinking of maintaining when Paris will host OL at the Parc des Princes the following week.

To each his own story.

Source: leparis

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