They are a lawyer, student, salesperson or secretary, and have every intention of beating the odds. The AAS Sarcelles girls welcome Montpellier this Saturday (2:30 p.m., at the Nelson-Mandela sports complex), for the first round of 16 of the Women’s French Cup in their history. And despite a preparation truncated by the weather, Boubakar Coulibaly’s protégés intend to compete with the Ligue 1 resident, twice champion of France, and who trains once or twice a day.
“We are going to play hard, to try to create a surprise,” explains the president of the AASS football section. The girls do not leave defeated. » A challenge which does not actually frighten the players in the yellow jersey, all amateurs, and who all have an activity outside the green rectangle. Because the Sarcelloises are used to shining. Now residents of Division 3, in just a few years they have established themselves as the leader in Val-d’Oisian women’s football.