Par Sports Editorial in Caen
Published on 25 Nov 23 at 8:17 See my news Follow Sport in Caen
Exclusively made up of hearing-impaired players, ASSS Caen will face ASSS Nîmes this Saturday, November 25, 2023 (4:00 p.m.) in the quarter-finals of the French Deaf Football Cup. Interview with her trainer, Zoé Brebion.
Zoé, Saturday afternoon, your men will face ASSS Nîmes for a place in the semi-final of the Coupe de France…
A team that we know from having played our first championship match there at the end of which we lost two goals to one. She has a very interesting physical impact and, offensively, fast players. The red card suffered in the fifty-sixth minute put us in difficulty. Playing ten against eleven changes a match! Today, we are ready to take our revenge and respond to the problems they will pose to us. We know what behavior to adopt and what play to optimize to win this match.
ASSS Caen is, for the moment, in fourth place in the French 1st Division Championship. What is your assessment of the start of the season?
If our players come from Caen but also from Rennes, Arras, Orléans, Rennes and, for one of them, even from Marseille, it is indeed the city of Caen that we represent! We include, in our pool, CSS Reims, ASSS Nîmes, CSSM Paris and ESS Vitry. Structured opponents at a very interesting level. A homogeneous championship where each match is extremely important.
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I am very satisfied with this group. The state of mind is intense and there is no shortage of footballing qualities. The players train three times a week and play the Saturday match with the ASSS and the Sunday match with their regular club. We’re starting an amazing year and we’ll make sure it ends amazing!
By taking charge of ASSS Caen, you became the first woman to lead a deaf football team. A word about your beginnings…
It has now been three months since I joined this coaching position at ASSS Caen. From the moment I arrived, it was, in fact, a challenge to be able to give this team what it deserves and as much as possible to achieve the objectives of qualifying for the Deaf Champions Cup and a high place in this national championship. We are not going to bring up the fact that I am the only hearing person, and even the only woman in this environment of deaf and hard of hearing men because for me, it is nothing and it should be normal.
I simply coach a football team. This requires a great deal of adaptation for them and for me, but that is what makes us strong today. It is essential, for me, to consider each person on the same scale, to give everyone a place in this society. Adaptation is the basis of everything. I always tell myself that, without each other, we are nothing.
So let’s go meet everyone regardless of pathologies or experiences! This is how we will move forward. And today, I am extremely impressed by the strength and fight that the players have every day. They do fifteen times more than us without ever complaining. Fifteen times more: why? To obtain this consideration and this place that they do not have.
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Why won’t ASSS Caen be able to play at the Stade de Venoix?
At the end of a meeting with the SM Caen association, Zoé Brebion obtained that this quarter-final of the Coupe de France be organized on the pitch of the Stade de Venoix. “It was important for me to show my team that the City of Caen supported us. This stadium, its grandstand allowed us to invite as many people as possible: clubs, families and even the SM Caen kop, she explains. I really wanted to show our audience that, no matter the disability or difference, everyone fights on the football field.”
But, following the refusal of the Caen Town Hall, the meeting will finally be held at the Stade de la Fossette. “I have no doubt that in addressing the SM Caen association, the ASSS Caen was in good faith but it was a methodological error. It’s not that simple and we only became aware of this request on the Tuesday before the match,” recalls Aristide Olivier, the deputy mayor of the City of Caen in charge of Sports, Youth and Student Life.
The Stade de Venoix is, in fact, a category 1 ERP forming part of the same group as the Palais des Sports which will be in high demand this weekend, with the arrival of the French women’s handball team. “We could not organize the correct redeployment of our agents on two sites in such a short time. If another opportunity arises in the future, there would be no problem. There is no subject regarding the City’s commitment alongside ASSS Caen.”
Quentin LEMOINE
Quarter-final of the Coupe de France Football Deafs this Saturday (4 p.m.) at the Stade de la Fossette
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2023-11-25 13:18:34
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