the preparation of the pros outside the club, a little taboo, very widespread

Like them, Jacques Ekomié, Malcom Bokélé and Logan Delaurier-Chaubet, or Sekou Mara before his departure, also do what is called external preparation. Usual during the long truces before the resumption, it is not well known in France “because it is still taboo, unlike England for example. Players or clubs don’t always want to say it, ”explains the young man.

However, “our work does not replace that of the club, I bring a little more” underlines Mickael Gomis, who wished during our meeting to establish with the Girondins the same relations for the boys as for the girls.

Garbino, Dufour, Palis, Ekomié, Bokélé are among its customers

The Pierrot Labat inspiration

This little extra, what is it? “One session per week, D-2 of the match, according to the player’s requests. “They call me to be more efficient, according to their needs: technique, explosiveness, power, everything depends on their profile. With Jacques and Malcom Bokélé, I only do technical work. A board, a ball, for example 40 repetitions of passes towards the board with right foot control and prohibition to exceed a delimited zone on the control. With Logan, muscle building. With Sekou, the explosiveness, that is to say the catch of the ball on the first meters, the finish. »

The rehearsal work with the board reminds the oldest of Pierrot Labat’s sessions taken from Ante Mladinic’s method, and this is no coincidence. “I played for the Girondins, not at the center but with the youngsters, and I watched him when he took on the older ones. Later, player in Villenave, I made my own meetings. »

“Players call me according to their needs: technique, explosiveness, power, it all depends on their profile”

Holder of a state diploma in sports coaching and a university degree in physical trainer, he trained “with Fabien Richard, who takes care of Sadio Mané, Miralem Pjanic, the Ayew brothers, and Rémi Lancou, physiotherapist and physical trainer from Algeria. »

“The most perfectionists”

His clientele, he made it, and continues to seek players, by word of mouth. “The club never sends me players. My first client was Driss Nasser, a former youngster from the Girondins who was looking for a chat during his vacation, I knew his agent. Then Mathias de Amorim, via a mutual friend. ” His reputation was made little by little, reinforced by his method: “the sessions take place on the ground, thanks to the Mérignac-Arlac club which welcomes me, and with the ball, at least a little, it’s more playful, they like it. »

The advantage of Mickael’s situation is that “it’s the players who come to see me, never the other way around, and those who do this are the perfectionists, the hardest workers, they arrive 30 minutes before, apply themselves enormously. »

In addition to the regular external preparation, Mickael Gomis deals more classically with players in “off season”, that is to say during the breaks and the holidays, “who want to talk, to prepare for a recovery. Among them, pros in Italy and Spain, “Aaron Boupendza, who came during the break in the Saudi championship and before joining the Gabonese selection, the basketball player from Pau (ex-JSA) Madiba Owona. »

(1). Garbino, Julie Dufour, Melissa Gomez, Ella Palis, Melissa Gomes, Sabrina de Queiros. He followed Charlotte Bilbault for Euro 2021, before leaving the club.