Blood and Gold one day, Blood and Gold always

Stade Poitevin (N3) – RC Lens (L1) The left side defender from Poitevin, Yanis Si Mohammed, will join the northern club where he was trained.

He would, of course, not have said no to Lyon or Nice, heavy too. But when he saw RC Lens also appear in the pool at the Stade Poitevin, before the draw for the 32 finals of the Coupe de France, Yanis Si Mohammed immediately thought of it. Like Yvan Kibundu.

After a year Niort, the midfielder spent the 2009-2010 season in the North, in a club that stinks of football. It was the very representation of excellence in terms of structures, quality of the field,, remembers the player, then used as a lateral by his ex-trainer Colbert Marlot. When you’re young, it’s one of the clubs where you dream of being trained and playing at the highest level.

Identity forte

I didn’t know your love for this club, had kindly roomed his trainer Xavier Dudoit. That of Yanis Si Mohammed is necessarily more pronounced. The left side, arrived this summer from Romorantin, spent five seasons there, between 2011 and 2016. My best years, he sums up.
While a resident of the INF Clairefontaine, the player passed through PSG and Racing in his youth could have made another choice. Olympique Lyonnais and the Girondins de Bordeaux were positioned to welcome him. But RC Lens had its preference. The club had manifested the earliest, explains Yanis Si Mohammed, represented by the former arts recruiting manager, Reda Hammache. I had visited the facilities and I fell in love with it. La Gaillette was considered the most beautiful training center in France. As soon as my visit was over, I texted my dad and told him that was where I wanted to sign.
At 15, the defender therefore left Ile-de-France to join Pas-de-Calais. And immerse yourself in the culture and fervor Sang et Or, quickly discovering the historic rivalry against Lille. We were talking about this match two or three weeks before, he explains. There was a ban on losing. The lensoise identity is strong and we instill it in you at the training center. I remember a derby in reserve, more than two thousand supporters were there with smoke. It was beautiful. Like the title of champion of France U17 won during his first season against Lyon of Anthony Martial (4-3), under the orders of Eric Sikora.
Yanis Si Mohammed will climb the ranks one by one, alongside Jeff Reine-Adlade, Jean-Philippe Gbamin, Baptiste Guillaume, Wylan Cyprien, Jean-Kvin Duverne, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde or even Benjamin Bourigeaud, to name a few.
U17s reserve it in N2, passing through the French teams U17, U18 and U19 (7 selections). The logical consequence would have wanted him to sign his first professional contract in the northern club. This was not the case and the left lateral bounced off SW Romorantin (N2) in 2016. I was always upgraded, the only one of my generation in a team in France and with this course, it is generally the result. I had the confidence of a part of the club and another doubted more of my characteristics. But that’s okay, I only retain the positive and the good memories. That he will not be able to share, Sunday, during a nice reunion with old acquaintances. Everything has changed, from the president to the educators, advance the left side, author of two decisive passes, the season passes, with the club Solognot in 32 and 16 in the Coupe de France. It’s a bit of a shame not to cross paths with anyone but to face a club where you have been for five years, where you have completed all your training, it is necessarily special. Blood and Gold one day, Blood and Gold always …

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