Vice champion of France since 2013, Paris Saint-Germain has attracted the greatest international players in these ranks. In lack of title since 2010 (Coupe de France) PSG has made several changes in place this season, to overcome this deficiency. The club enjoys a prestigious place in the D1 Feminine, but struggles to dislodge the ogre Lyon. Led by Patrice Lair since this summer, Paris has very high ambitions this season. Will she be the right one?

Insuffle a new impulse

Renewed after the cape passed in 2011, the PSG shares with great ambitions for this 2016/2017 season. The capital club had a difficult past, losing the biggest players one after the other, starting with Asllani, then Berger, Dahlkvist and the Hecatomb after the separation with Houara, Seger, Dali and Hamraoui for finish recently by Mittag or Couturier. The club is in a deep revival, pushed by his new coach Patrice Lair. He who does not want to come back on the team of last season, who does not "know it" and who concentrates rather on "the future" with his team. Team with which he "worked for a month and a half" after being "interned," where "everyone [made] efforts." The preparation of the team was "well done with great efficiency" and girls who put this "investment" to succeed. He who wants above all "to play at Camp des Loges because this is the field where the club really wants to play." Certainly more practical than Charlety, or more strategic for the Parisian coach ... Reminding also "that the public is happy" to have attended this match in this forum.

He also came back to the fact that many "we're burying [the club] a little bit, because there are a lot of players left." Today, the coach wants to focus on his current workforce, he thinks indeed that it is possible to "fill by a collective, envy among young people, efficiency and especially with a group that lives well , who smiles a lot "this passage and the departures of all these players.

Fragilize by the previous year, the PSG will have a lot to do to restore these letters of nobility to his club. The arrival of Veronica Boquete and Irène Paredes, as well as the Sarah Palacin stéphanoise have clearly demonstrated a new era within the Parisian club. Patrice Lair also came back to the fact that he has "a good Parisian team," with "a lot of young people and good (experienced) players especially." A good mix between youth and experience in short, that the coach was able to set up quickly within the team to create "an interesting workforce". In which the coach will want to mix young people in his project which "showed beautiful facets of their talent" according to him.

In search of the gral

This season PSG does not hide its ambitions against OL, as pointed out Patrice Lair: "Now the ambitions are very high, we will ask them problems (in Lyon)." But through Marino Faccioli (President of OL Feminin) wanted to remind him that "With this squad," Lyon "will be difficult to thwart, no offense to Patrice Lair (ed). Before OL captain Wendie Renard added her statement also "The war is launched with Patrice (ed)."

The coach knows indeed very well his opponent, he who led "Lyon for 4 years," and who "had a great time," he knows "the shop." With a lot of lucidity and hindsight, the coach knows that the march will remain difficult to pass but not impassable: "We will do everything to embarrass them, at least and I even hope that in the near future, we will manage to pass. "

The Paris coach has also returned to the rest of the championship, without breaking his other opponents as he recalled, during the presentation of the D1 Feminine on Tuesday "I have a lot of humility with respect to other clubs" . One way for him to highlight women's football as a whole "We try to bring women's football as high as possible, with all the other clubs too".

This season Paris Saint-Germain will therefore have to secure its second place and also try to annoy Lyon, even to defeat it, a fact that has not happened so often that for Parisian ...

Prepare for the future

Before leaving the coach, we wanted to know his feelings on the "disillusion" of the Blue after the Olympic Games: "I am inevitably disappointed, I come back in women's football, except last season, where I was advising the President Nicollin in Montpellier So disappointed because it's been 6 years that we should have had a title, it's a shame, but must not let go, we must continue to work. With a title of European Champion to their credit, Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Grace Geyoro, Hawa Cissoko or Pearl Morroni, the coach thinks "We have to get young people to play in preparation for the 2019 World Cup and there will come a time when it will open and I hope that our national team will win a title."

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