Like Marseille, Bordeaux arrives in D1 with a label. Both clubs were chosen for the first poster broadcast on Eurosport this weekend for the launch of the season of D1. Yet the Girondine women's section remains an amateur team whose workforce discovers for the vast majority the first division without complex but also few benchmarks.

In the workforce of Bordeaux, they are some to have known the D1 like Eva Sumo, Emmanuelle Lacroix or Chloé Billaud. But the experience, Bordeaux left to look elsewhere with notably the arrivals of Cindy Ferreira, who played at Saint-Maur last season and Félicité Tiziri Hamidouche, passed by PSG and Vendenheim but also by Clairefontaine.

But even for players who have once experienced the D1, the experience is sometimes too far to bring extra confidence to the approach of the season. This is what confided to us Chloé Billaud, who started her career in Soyaux, before becoming a manager in Blanquefort then Girondins de Bordeaux. A passage in the club Charentais who is 8 years old and with too few matches played (20 in 4 years) to be significant according to her.

The big dive
For Bordeaux, perhaps more than for the other two promoted, this year will be a real discovery. A finding that can be extended to the coach, Jerome Dauba, who took the reins of the team at the end of last season, replacing Theodore Genoux. His predecessor who did not have sufficient degrees to train the team in D1. Jérôme Dauba was working for the district of Gironde-Atlantique and had worked this year with the Bordeaux women's team as part of his "coaching for performance optimization, mental aspects" certificate.

Chloé Billaud, Bordeaux midfielder is already "looking forward to all matches" and especially that facing Olympique Lyonnais.

This "search for efficiency" and "performance optimization" he sought to put into practice during the six weeks of preparation this summer. After conducting an "audit on the qualities of the group", Jérôme Dauba said that the main needs of the workforce were to be able to have a greater "depth of bench" but without trying to "revolutionize the group". For recruitment, the staff of Bordeaux systematically wanted to "propose a double-project" (studies or work + football). It is on this basis that Chloé Mustaki, a young Irish player, was recruited in Bordeaux.

In addition to the athletic work, the preparation was also based on the desire of the Gironde coach to create "an awareness of what needs to be done to improve performance" both individually and collectively with "a participative dimension In the proposed approach. It is for each player and the group to "evaluate themselves and prepare for the requirement of the D1". With this in mind, Jérôme Dauba wanted to place the friendly matches against teams of D1 (Guingamp, Rodez and Real Sociedad [D1 Spanish]) early in preparation to precisely encourage this self-assessment approach and that everyone is capable to set themselves goals of work for the coming season.