D1 Arkema – PSG: Aminata Diallo and Kheira Hamraoui will resume training on Tuesday

Aminata Diallo and Kheira Hamraoui are going “resume collective training this (Tuesday) morning“. It was Didier Ollé-Nicolle, the PSG women’s coach, who announced it at a press conference.”The club made the decision this weekend to reinstate them at the group level. They will resume collective training this (Tuesday) morning with the group“, explained the technician, on the eve of the Champions League match against Kharkiv in Ukraine (6.45 p.m.).

The two players had not reappeared in collective training since the assault in early November of Kheira Hamraoui. The latter had been the victim of a violent ambush on the evening of November 4, after returning from a team dinner, during which two masked attackers had attacked her with the iron bar at the level of the legs. Her PSG teammate Aminata Diallo, witness to the scene, was arrested and then placed in police custody for two days, before coming out free without any charge being brought against her.

“There has been professional work that has been done on the part of the club and the staff to support them for a month, outside the group, apart from any notion of a match. There have been two weeks of individual work, one apart from the other“, detailed Didier Ollé-Nicolle.”They were taken by each member of the staff, whether it was the physical trainer, the assistants and myself so that they realized that everyone was interested in them and was professional. Without knowing where we were going to go. Last week, we trained them together, so that there is no ambiguity because we are doing a team sport. If it has to evolve, it’s all together“, added the coach.

“These are girls who haven’t played for a month, who have trained in dotted lines. The physical and mental aspect is very important for a high level athlete (…) In relation to the preparation of these players, it is as if they were injured, I consider that they have been injured for a month. It takes time to come back physically and psychologically. It’s a return of these two girls in the group. We have to get used to living together again“, continued Didier Ollé-Nicolle. Already qualified for the quarter-finals of the C1, PSG should appear with a revised eleven in Kharkiv on Wednesday.”We’re going to use this match to give six or seven girls playing time, but keeping our base and our usual organization.“, said the coach.