Women's football attracts more and more professional clubs, Templemars is the proof. The club has just been integrated into the professional club of LOSC and therefore becomes the LOSC women. The North team eighth of Pool A last season, therefore changes size and will defend the colors of Lille this season.

Women's coach LOSC Jéremie Descamps is still cautious about Lille's ambitions this year. The Hen A this year is also raised with Metz who wants to quickly find the elite. The coach was kind enough to tell us about his team. Rookie Rachel Saidi also shares her impressions of her new club, as well as Hillary Damman and Dounia Akhazroun.
Jeremie Descamps (female LOSC coach):
"It's a very exciting season, we all can not wait to get started, a difficult group with heavy downhill constraints, a group even more than last year, a difficult start to the season with three big meetings. in the first three games, it will have to be competitive entry, afterwards, it is difficult to project, I have not yet evaluated the level of my team this year.The objective is the maintenance while trying to deploy a game It will be necessary to be able to set up a well oiled collective as soon as possible, because there might be some changes in the team.It will be very competitive from the beginning of the championship to compete with the big ones. engine that we will meet very quickly.If otherwise the main ingredient for the success of this goal is the daily work that will achieve the girls.We have noted three departures in senior and we have we recorded 8 arrivals, for the first team, for now there are 6 mutated. The effect of this merger was felt very quickly. At first with the image returned through all the communication that has been put in place, and in a second time with the possibility of developing our training structures, which are excellent. "
Rachel Saidi (female LOSC rookie):
"I had a rich but complicated sporting year in Arras, I'm 27 years old, I'm nearing the end of my career and I had to finish on a more ambitious project.I have been contacted by several clubs but with my I had to make a choice in the region and the Templemars Club project, which is now LOSC, was fully up to my expectations.
With the new reform of the D2 groups, we all expect a very tense season. The places of maintenance will be very expensive. There will be no right to error from the first days. For the moment, the first objective of this season will be of course the maintenance in this top of table of group A. The LOSC has made a great recruitment which will allow us to have competition at each position. It will therefore be important to find the right pairs, important to create automatisms between old and new, important to create momentum in this "new" group. It will also be important to be physically and mentally ready for this new challenge. This merger allows us to benefit from very interesting infrastructures. We are then lucky to play with official outfits. A very important mark of recognition for a player. There is also a medical monitoring that is not found in all D2 clubs. This merger is a wealth for Northern women's football. It was late for my taste because we lost a lot of good players, lack of resources ... Our region is the third league most licensed in France.
We have a lot of players selected in the national selections, we have a pole female hope, five clubs in D2 ... The finding is striking, there is quality among our players northerners but no real way ... we were missing a merger with a pro boy club of this magnitude. Now that this merger is done, it is up to us to continue the work started and to pull this club to the highest level. "
Hillary Damman (Guardian):
"I find this fusion super, it's a big step for our club, it will help to move forward and reach our goals much faster.It is no difference with our preparation. as serious as usual to start the season as best as possible but in better conditions, it's different, we have access to the stadium of Villeneuve-d'Ascq and the field of Luchin, they are very beautiful grounds .. C is a good start, who knows one day we will be playing at the big stadium, we also have access to a weight room which will also be a change in the preparation. is huge, only half will be successful, it's going to be a really tough championship this year. "

Dounia Akhazroun (Attacker): "It's a pride to play for the LOSC, we will have to finish in the top six of group A to stay in. I hope to be regular, for that I will give myself 100% for the Team The coach has made a good recruitment with very good players from D1.The early recovery with four training sessions a week in beautiful infrastructure allow us to put ourselves in the best position to start the championship.

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