Before joining Bordeaux this January, Mylaine Tarrieu started her career at Olympique Lyonnais with whom she will win everything. Faced with the competition in Lyon, the young attacker decides to leave her club of heart to have more play time. A case that is not so unique today among French internationals. For her new adventure, we contacted her * to have her feelings on her arrival in Gironde and exchanged on her upcoming goals in her new colors and selection. Portrait.



Hearts of Foot - How is your integration in Bordeaux?

Mylaine Tarrieu - It's going well, I was welcomed. We always have apprehension when we arrive at a new club, but in the end everything went well, the girls were really nice and we work well. The group lives well.


CDF - Did you know Bordeaux players?

Mr. T. - Ghoutia [Karchouni], Nadjma [Ali Nadjim] and Lindsey [Thomas].


CDF - Nadjma and Lindsey, they are two players with whom you have to agree on the field?

Mr. T. - Yes affinities we have them. We had them from Lyon with Nadjma and young people with Ghoutia [in selection]. So the affinities are still there.
I arrived at the age of 15 in Lyon, so with Nadjma we have known each other for a long time. We played in U18 and U19 together if I'm not mistaken.


CDF - Okay, so I knew that you played more axially in your formation, but with OL you were placed on the left and even now in Bordeaux with the duo Ali Nadjim / Thomas.

M.T. - When I arrived in Lyon, yes I played a lot in the axis. But after playing on the sides it does not bother me. Because I like, compared to my speed take the corridors. I do not really have a preferential position.

Yes I was replaced to the left, exactly.


CDF - So you form the offensive trio of Bordeaux today?

M.T. - We try to bring what we can do to help the team.


CDF - Does this adaptation to your new role suit you? You told me that you had been trained in the axis and that you were replaced to the left. Does this new "post" do not bother you?

M. T. - Not at all. After I have to resume my marks a little because in Lyon I played side left, so I had a little lost my automatisms of the middle, but it will come back. Already I think it's back [with Bordeaux].


CDF - How was your loan from Lyon to Bordeaux?

M.T. - How did it go? I had little time playing in Lyon and I needed to play and Bordeaux was interested. While talking with the coach [Jérôme Dauba], the flow went well and we talked about the facilities, the training and I liked it. I made my choice so to go to Bordeaux and I do not regret.


"Playing football as I know how to do it"


CDF - You are a very discreet player. In Lyon I think you got on well with Elodie Thomis. She is also a discreet player, but in the field she was respectful and she also did some interviews. It was important. What did she give you as advice for your career, your game, or even your way of being maybe?

M.T. - She always gives me advice and I think she will always give me some. She is a player with whom I get on well. For me it's like my big sister. And yes indeed she gave me advice when I left for Bordeaux. She told me to let go more, to free me because she knows that I am a player as they say reserved, shy, who does not speak much and she told me in Bordeaux to let me go.

To have come to Bordeaux it will also allow me to leave some of my cocoon in Lyon and like that, it will allow me to open myself to other people. She also told me to have fun, to have fun, to play football as I know how to do it, not to be shy, to open myself ...


CDF - These are good tips. It shows that it is a little bit of you even if in football we know that there is a lot of competition ...

M.T. - Yes, they are good advice. Yes (laughs) we have almost the same position. But she was playing on the other side ...


CDF - Do you think that precisely your character, where the image that you send back does not serve you sometimes?

M.T. - Yes, I know that being reserved can be to my detriment perhaps. I try to work on me, I have to be free in my head. I must not be shy, introverted. But afterwards it's true that it's hard because that's how I am. I know that being in Bordeaux will make me go another way.

"You're coming out of U19s, you're doing the World Cup and

when you come back, you train only with the pros "


CDF - So I saw your stats, 36 goals in 18 games with the U19, I think there are no players who have done better than you. It's a huge stat. Why did not you ever impose yourself after that?

M.T. - (white) Yes exactly, it was my last year of training with Lyon in U19. Yes at that moment I had exploded. That's what opened the doors of the U20, with whom I got to know the U20 World Cup in Canada [in 2014].

During the World Cup actually, I had a knee injury, meniscus ... I sign my first professional contract with OL, and I do care and everything. But to regain my level, it was hard, because it changes. You go U19, you make the World Cup and when you come back, you train with the pros so to regain rhythm, to find my game, do not have apprehension at the knee ... J I had a little trouble because I hurt myself again after that.

(light white) Yes it was a little hard to impose myself but I never gave up, I always continued to work. After I was still a reservist for Euro 2017 under Echouafni. I have been called to France B team several times so ... After work and work and I think that one day I could knock on the door of the team of France A. There I I have a coach who trusts me, I will be able to find play time, start replay every weekend and it will go.


"You have to work and work and I think

that one day I could knock on the door of the A "


CDF - You have goals in sight ...

M.T. - Yes, I have goals that are in the back of my mind and I do not forget. There's the 2019 World Cup in France and that's something I'd like to achieve.


CDF - You're only 22 years old ...
M.T. - 23 (laughs) I got them on the 5th of January.


CDF - I think it was the speech of Corinne Deacon who also echoed you?

M.T. - Even before she arrived Corinne Deacon, I wanted to be loaned to another club to have just more playing time, but it took longer than expected. Now the chances are in my hands, it's up to me to show what I can do and bring a plus to Bordeaux, which is a wonderful team. It's a new challenge and I'm thinking of taking it up and it's going well.


CDF - To talk about your game, are you more of a midfielder or an attacker?

M.T. - (she hesitates) I will say midfield but if they put me attacking, if he needs me in attack there is no problem. Everything offensive is no problem, if I'm right or left, I have no problem with that. But I think my first job is midfield.


 "Over the matches I will go up

and I could help the team better. "


CDF - For your first match of D1 with Bordeaux, you faced Fleury. What can you tell us? How did it go for you?
M.T. - We drew (3-3) but we had the qualities to win this game. It still remains a not so bad result, since we have not lost (Bordeaux equalized at the end of the game).

My match personally? I must find my bearings. It had been a while since I had not played because before going on vacation, I was stopped two weeks after a thigh injury ... Otherwise it's ok, I would not say I made a match perfect, but it's still my first game and I know I can do more. Over the matches I will be stronger and I could help the team better.


CDF - You made a decisive pass, but I saw that you had missed a ball for a goal?

M.T. - Yes, I made a decisive pass in the second half. Yes it's true [I had a ball for a goal] in the first half and (nervous laughter) I do not know what I did maybe it's too much pressure, I do not know. Maybe I do not expect the sitter to release the ball and I rush a bit too much and suddenly the ball deviates completely.


CDF - That's things for a player like you, who have to stay in the middle?

M.T. - Yes, that's for sure, because at that moment we could have come back to 1-1 but we have to move on. We must quickly get back into the game, because otherwise you can get out. For me, a high-level player I must quickly move on and put myself in my game.


CDF - But now you know that on this point there, in front of the goal, you have to improve?

M.T. - Yes, of course I have to improve on that. After as I said once that confidence will come back, it will go by itself.

CDF - It's a lack of confidence? Or the fact that you can not impose yourself?

M.T. - Not when I say confidence is to be able to play the matches. After that it's always difficult to be in a big club and not being able to play matches every weekend. So suddenly we do not necessarily have the same engines [automatisms in his game]. Then you have to have confidence because if you do not have that, it sure will not go.


CDF - It's true that in Lyon you had a lot of competition, to name only Schelin, Hegerberg, or Le Sommer. It's difficult to win and with your very young age it's worse. You knew it ? Is it a way for you to learn from these players?

M.T. - Yes, I know, there was a big competition. After that it's like that in all good clubs, that's why in mind and character, you have to be solid, you have to work and work. But in Lyon it has always been good, there has always been a good agreement. I learned a lot at training. It was healthy competition. When you have a Lotta Schelin, an Ada Hegerberg, an Eugenie Le Sommer you can only progress to training. After all, it was difficult to win as a youngster to play. But we must also think of the positive, with these players you learn a lot of things, because they gave you a lot of advice.


CDF - How do we live this situation of being in the best club in Europe without being able to take part in the matches? It must have been frustrating for you to be on the score sheet, but without being able to play?

M.T. - Yes it was frustrating, every player wants to play but it's the coach's choice, it's like that. But after I had a good time in Lyon, I won a lot of titles.


CDF - You told me about Elodie Thomis earlier, but what other player did you learn in your game?

M.T. - (Hesitancy) With Lotta Schelin we spoke a lot, during my first year in D1, when I signed. We talked each other when there were specific exercises for the attackers. I also spoke a lot with Wendie Renard even if she does not have an offensive profile (smile) but for me, like, it's like a big sister. She gave me a lot of advice. After we all spoke, and when the players have more experiences, they support us, like Camille Abily. And all the players that I could quote, Ada, Eugénie, Elodie ...


"It's like a kid's dream coming true."


CDF - You absorbed a little what you saw of them?

MT - Yes that's for sure when you leave the formation [U19] and you arrive in the elite, you're not surprised but it's nice to tell you that you train with Eugenie Le Sommer, Camille Abily, the Lotta Schelin while you watched them on TV when you were in U19 play the Champions League. So it's like a kid's dream coming true.


"I've always been humble actually in life,

even before signing professional. "


CDF - Do you feel that you are humble in your speech, and that you are reserved because you do not want to lose this humility precisely?

M.T. - (she thinks) I have always been humble in fact in life, even before signing professional. And it's not because I signed pro that I'm going to take the big head, for me it's useless, you must always keep your feet on the ground because football goes fast, you can be up as at any moment you can be downstairs.

After I think it's also in my education, with my parents and it's something that I practice [in football]. After that maybe it can also play being reserved, but when I'm with my friends, my family I'm not (laughs), I'm not at all Mylaine [we see] (laughs).


CDF - That's why you're afraid to put yourself forward I have the impression?

M.T. - No, I do not think so. I think if you do not come to me, I do not necessarily go to people.


CDF - But you're a footballer, you know it's a lot of things?

M.T. - Yes after I know, I am a footballer, but I remain someone like everyone else. I have a good job, but you have to stay humble.


* Interview conducted Monday, January 15, the day after his first match of 13th day (Bordeaux vs Fleury: 3-3).

Photo: Nicolas Lacambre