At just 20, Anais Tenreiro had the difficult task as captain to lead his Evry team against the elite club, Metz FC. A role she held, despite the blows and difficulty of the game, goal after goal. If the player reveals that she knew what to expect during this match, she also knows that it is a good way to learn for the rest of their championship in DHR. Interview.

The fight is not always fair, the same championship but more than one division to another, certainly. Yet the level continues to grow, from year to year, despite the levels of the teams. All want to "have fun" but the pleasure does not pass by the win? Not necessarily, football is above all the surpassing of oneself. From there comes pleasure, not victory. Giving the best of oneself, it remains the primary foundation of Football. This is what we talked about with Anais Tenreiro.

"Paris FC" it was "more complicated"

Complicated as a match, what are you holding on to?
Rather yes but it was a good training [life size] for us. We knew we were not favorites, we came here, we said 'we'll have fun', even if it's a heavy score, we learned a lot for the championship, it's still good.

Your last match, it was against Paris FC just, a short 1-0 defeat, did it affect your morale before moving on to this match of the Coupe de France?
I think more than it was the holidays that played (laughs). We had a ... long break, not a long break, but there were holidays, so it was hard to get back to [training pace]. After I think we have been supportive from the beginning to the end, we did not let ourselves abbatres by the score or otherwise. We tried to work to the maximum. I do not think he played a big game against Paris FC because it was more complicated than that [against Metz], in terms of morale because we took a lot of blows, including had a lot of cruelty etc which made it was not so it was another context in fact.

"at a moment must be realistic"

In addition during the match, we saw that you were driving, you were not really less physical, maybe in speed, and you do not use enough your corridors because it is an exercise that we learn but that we do not necessarily have to put in place, in situation. But do you think you could have scored a goal?
Yes, I think, we should no longer play the game on the ground, put the ball, do our game simply but I think that with the stress just to meet a D1, all the girls have lost some of their abilities because we were not all 100%, I think. Then Metz, technically they were above, I mean at one time must be realistic, they made a touch of ball, they played between the spaces etc. I think that we were stressed from the start and we have not managed to put our game in value, to distribute the balloons well, to put it down, to use the corridors and so on
For you the Coupe de France, it's still a way to put the spotlight on you, attract a little more spectators, attention?
Well yes I think it's a good way, it can bring players too, after I think it's good, I think we came far for a club at our level, we made our beautiful little course.

When you say "bring back players" is also what a club like Evry needs in the end?
Yes that's it. So it's the same we are known in the sense that players can be recruited too or players can come to us.

Earlier we heard someone say that one of your teammates could play in Montpellier. Is that the goal of a club like Evry?
Yes that's it.

"now it's more difficult"Because today it's getting harder and harder to get to the next level.

Yes that's for sure, especially the fact that there was the change in the divisions too [fewer clubs, better qualities] so now it's more difficult but hey it's done.

So the goal of Evry is more to train good players to play in other clubs at a better level?

Yes, that's the end of the training. After them [messines] they are formed every day or can be more days than us, so we are trained on a few hours. After we take pleasure, that's all we try to do, we have fun and we will go as far as possible [in our career].

How old are you ?

... I'm 20 years old, I think because I have just done them (laughs).

On the field we saw that even as, as captain you gave you. Did you want to let go?

Yes, I'm 20 years old, I'm not the youngest, because there is still younger but I'm not bad in that ... It's been 3 years I think the coach put me captain. I was 17 or 18 when I took the armband. I started football, about 12 years ago. When I arrived in Evry, I spent a year in PL because I had a license problem, after I went to DH. I knew the level above, we went back down and from the moment we were in DHR, I was captained.

So how does it look like the rest of your season in your Regional Honor Division Championship? You are 6th in the standings.

We are 6th ... we will say that the results do not follow our progress. Our matches are good, we are not enough ... I would not say concentrated because in the end it goes well but we'll get there, I'm sure that even if we had a bad result against Etampes, we would have could do something better. We will catch up on the second part of the season, that's what counts.

The return matches?

Yes, that's it, anyway we have no choice (laughs).

You're a central defender, we saw that you had a violent shock?

Yes. Yes it was below my knee, it's swollen, I have an egg now (laughs). I do not know what happened. Surely the contact with the player [Metz]. I went there, I think I took a shot the moment I stopped and after there was something, I think his shin protects or kick, I do not know.

"We do not like to be walked on, as a rule"

The match was really physical then?

Yes, they do not like blows too much, and we do not like to take them too much, so the more we take, the more we will give (smile). We are very temperamental. We do not like to be walked on, as a rule.

Did you have any opportunities, especially towards the end of the match?

Yes I think, after as I said with my coach, they were very good in the air game, beautiful heads. So we have a little bit of trouble on our side, since we are a little tiny, and we have trouble jumping very high, we have not a good relaxation but that, it works and we will work in training.

Photo: Nelson Fatagraf