Most of the time, the path of a player begins in a club near her home, which is not necessarily at a very high level. When Adeline Janela joined Algrange the club was evolving then in D3 (DH today) and like some clubs lately, it ended up being approached by a pro club, that of FC Metz in this case. Meeting with a player who has climbed the ladder to play maintaining the elite Women's Football in France.

You played the whole game against Guingamp yesterday, we felt slightly annoyed at the outcome of the match? (The match took place on Wednesday in a late match and ended with a 1-1 draw).

Indeed [I played the whole game]. Yes annoyed because it's a game where we had some control. It was perhaps one of the most beautiful games we have played of the season, with the match against Lyon. What is really frustrating is that we feel that we have opportunities, that we get these opportunities, that we magnify them, that we have a non-existent free kick [shot by Salma Amani for the goal of Guingamp], it's me who makes the mistake, it's even more frustrating, so yes, annoyed because there was room for more and it's always frustrating to finish with a draw when there was more possibility. It was a little bit the same thing in Albi (1-0 defeat) so we have two failures, even if it bothers me to use this term, because we still have our first points of the season but we could have hoped for better.

"in three years I can tell you that French football has evolved well"

It's been about 10 years now that you've been on the same team, even after the merger with Metz. You even start at 15 in D3, which no longer exists today, before making six years in D2 and climbing in D1 with the club messin. At that moment for you it's a true consecration? It was a pride to move from this amateur world to the "professional" even if I know you do not like this word too much?

Yes it's really great to live, especially for me because my goal is to reconcile my dual project work / football. Today I see this especially as a chance to play in D1 and to work alongside [as a cadre in recruitment and training]. Having been able to go through all the stages at the championship level, it's intense to live. I made the first year of the rise in D1 and then it and in three years I can tell you that the French football has evolved, it feels and it's even more satisfying than having my place in a group that is quite young and where there are many talents.

No I do not like that word at all (laughs) [professional] actually. Because for me football is really a passion. I do not play football to make money, I do not play football to be popular saying that I play in D1. The day I take my foot off playing football, I'll stop.

Algrange was your neighborhood club are we going to say?

I started in a small club near my home, where I lived and played all the time in a mixed club and then I joined the team of Woippy, which was well ranked at the time and then I quickly joined the Algrange club, which became FC Metz.

It was a bit far from home, but I had no choice but to progress to joining a D3 club.

We remember a little anecdote of your former coach Gérome Henrionnet, who said that you could blame him perhaps without telling him necessarily, not to hold the match during the first season of Metz in D1, until let him make you go back sideways and become a safe bet at this post. It was hard to step back or understand why you were not playing?
Yes at the base I have more an offensive profile and the move back it was not necessarily fun because what I loved in the position of middle left or even playmaker was to be able to make the difference, d 'Being a passer-by and being back I did not have this vision of a position that could climb very high on the ground. It's true that it bothered me strongly at first. After I learned to discover this post and I think it's one of the most important roles in football now. Today a lateral he is not content to just defend, he is also one of the first offensive players and suddenly it became a position that I like and where I feel comfortable.

"if we take girls individually, there was quality"

Despite the difficulty of the first year in D1, was not it precipitous according to you the rise?

Not in fact the climb, it broke because we were a group, when we were in Algrange, good girlfriends, we did not take the lead, if we went up D1 it was so much better. It was not rushed because we knew that if the rise happened, there would be substantial recruits, another budget ... I think that if we take the girls individually, there was quality and even today our last place in the championship does not necessarily reflect the talent in the group.

Because we see that teams like Marseille were very cautious about this rise in the elite as the LOSC this season in D2. Even if you have changed coaches in the meantime. Did not you go head down?

Yes really we went headlong there. There was no calculation, we were a good group of girlfriends, we played together, if we climbed it was better if not too bad. It was a very very beautiful season [in D2].

"It's very complicated, and very frustrating"

In 2014/2015 you make 5 V, 4 N and 13 defeats, there this season it is stronger and you can not have any victories. You enter 27 goals too, there today you have only scored 3. It's complicated to live, what do you say in those moments? It is the individualities that lack compatibility in the workforce?

It's very complicated, and very frustrating because if we take the girls from our team individually, I do not think we're inferior to other D1 teams.

If I think they are [compatible, individualities]. Today I will tell you sincerely, what we missed is an attacker, who does not take the head to know how she played, no matter how she scores, the thigh or chest is the same . At least she scored. It takes a little more madness and movement. What is reassuring [in the return phase] is that we get opportunities, we had not in the first half of the season.

The departure of Marie-Charlotte Léger also explains a little this? We know that Guingamp knew this with the departure of M'Bock. Do not focus or rely on another player even if it's our teammate? To avoid these disappointments?

Concretely yes, and Marie-Charlotte Léger, it was typically the attacker, who did not care how she was going to score as it arrived, it was all that mattered to him. It was really a crazy personality and it was a key player in our first season of D1.

In women's football, I think it's difficult to retain a player so do not stop on a simple girl. After individualities like Marie-Charlotte Léger for sure it's a girl who can make the difference and it's always important in a group. Especially when you're a team like Metz and you're not Lyon, what, that's for sure.

"It's sure that learning the D1 is something that is quite complicated"

In D1 Feminine one speculates rather quickly which club will finish in the red zone (compared to the budget in particular or the squad). Unfortunately Metz fell unanimously according to the "captains" of the clubs who confided in Eurosport. Can it also explain that you are getting bogged down in this situation, having that pressure over your head? It's hard to say that it's the mental or the group cohesion, but from an outside point of view for us that's how it feels, despite being well surrounded by the club.

Not at all because from the beginning we knew it would not be an easy season. To have already lived once, we always know because I still believe in it, we know that to be able to maintain, it will have to galley three times more than the others. Because we already lack experiences, we are a fairly young group. If we take the first part of the season, we made mistakes of team which lack of experiences and it is sure that the learning of the D1, it is something which is rather complicated. We begin to take this knowledge of the first part of the season. It is felt on our way to apprehend the matches. Yes everyone sees us go down, everyone saw us [relegated] from the beginning. It is a pressure that is just positive and we have nothing to lose. We train every day, with a lot of requirements, like the big teams of the championship, we whip like the others, we are a group of workers, this is one of our main qualities. Personally I believe it until the last match because there is envy, there is a soul in this team, there is a collective desire to succeed, it is all that is necessary in a team . Today we have not had a chance so far, especially on the last two / three meetings. But it will come and when we have this, I hope it will generate more victories and it will be more than positive.

We ourselves have no answers as to why we can not win. We do not have them because we do our best to win. All the ingredients are there, we have a staff that is of quality just like the band, we have the mind, we have character, because being able to return to 1-1 against Guingamp and against Soyaux, that proves that we are always the.

It is heavy as a situation, but how can we continue to enjoy playing?

Already having a united group that already allows us to hold, have a staff and a club that encourages us, it also helps. After that I think that we are aware of things, that we are capable of more and we also have young players who have potential and who can have a good career afterwards, there is a collective work that is done, but it is also individual. When we have girls like Juliane Gathrat or Héloïse Mansuy, they are quality girls, who really have a career in football and from a technical point of view girls are pushing the group higher, because they also have individual goals.

In a corner of his head we are at the idea of ​​going back down, but at the same time it is boosting when we say that we will fight on equal terms in D2 to try to return to this D1 can to be a little better prepared?

Me personally I do not think at all because I live really day by day. I still believe in it and I'm a big fighter. Today we still have leaders who have big minds, I think Simone Jatoba, it's a player who has lived, experience, who manages to push the team up. We do not want to think about it, because we still believe it. We will fight to be able to maintain even if it will be very difficult. To get there will have to play 200% now. We are in the image of our coach [David Fanzel], we are fighters.

"we knew we needed an attacker"

We know that a Bayern player has arrived, Melike Pekel, we noticed yesterday, unfortunately she did not have many opportunities. Does having players enough on the side, boosts or creates an imbalance?

Not an imbalance because we were aware that we needed an attacker like Melike. She is a player who brings a lot of movement, freshness, who is able to put rhythm even if she still has not scored, because she has not procured many opportunities. It allows for a few more opportunities for the players around her. She is a player who plays very fast and will do us a lot of good. We knew we would have a player of great renown, so today it is rather a chance and an asset for us to have it.

So last question is of course about the game that awaits you this Sunday, a knockout match. We spoke with Flavie Lemaître player Rodez, who said they will not take you lightly. What is your mood on your side?

Today we were mainly focused on these two championship games [Soyaux / Guingamp]. To know that this is going to be our third game of the week in the legs so we know that it will be complicated. We know that Rodez is a team that has impact, so it's going to go. We like it to be moved, but we also like to go in so there's no fear. We will give everything and we will do everything to win because we know that victories call victories. We are on a good start so I think to finish with this victory that we miss in the league, it would be the reward of all these months of intense work.

Pictures: Nelson Fatagraf & Rene Bach